Luigi Mangione Goodreads account lauded homegrown terrorist the Unabomber as a revolutionary who rightfully used violence against corporations and their leaders in a ‘necessary’ bid to right ‘wrongs’ against society.
The 26 year old man arrested Monday morning on firearms violations and thought to be the suspect behind the shooting murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, 50, last week in Manhattan, praised homegrown terrorist, the Unabomber aka Ted Kaczynski as a ‘revolutionary’ on his Goodreads account.
While Kaczynski was a ‘violent individual’ and ‘rightfully imprisoned,’ his actions are ‘more accurately seen as those of an extreme political revolutionary,’ alleged anti-capitalist, Luigi Mangione, 26, wrote in a four star review of Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto, ‘Industrial Society and Its Future.’
Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 more with letter bombs over the course of 20 years.
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‘When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive.’
In a post on Jan. 23, 2024, Luigi Mangione allegedly wrote on his Goodreads account: ‘It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out.’
Mangione’s review also shared unattributed quotes justifying violence against corporations and their leaders: ‘When all other forms of communication fail, violence is necessary to survive.’
Contemplated Mangione, ‘You may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it’s not terrorism, it’s war and revolution. Fossil fuel companies actively suppress anything that stands in their way and within a generation or two, it will begin costing human lives by greater and greater magnitudes until the earth is just a flaming ball orbiting third from the sun.’
When Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning, authorities said the 26 year old, who had a masters from Ivy League school, UPenn, was carrying his own manifesto, a three-page, handwritten document.
The manifesto ‘criticized health-care companies for putting profits above care’ the nytimes reported.
The document, included Mangione allegedly writing: ‘These parasites had it coming.
‘I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.’
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Mangione’s manifesto indicated the suspect ‘has some ill will toward corporate America.’ Bullet casings found at the scene of last week’s shooting outside a midtown Hilton Hotel also had engravings with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” similar to a phrase about the insurance industry to describe a strategy of rejecting claims, ‘delay, deny, defend,’ which was used as the title of a 2010 book by Rutgers University professor Jay Feinman.
Mangione along with posting on the book review site, also posted on social media website, X, where he shared a variety of views about technology, politics, society and culture.
Of particular intrigue was a debate that the alleged gunman engaged in on the social media platform about whether rape or homicide is the worse crime.
Mangione said that the poll results showed that people think homicide has worse consequences, but rape is a result of worse virtues.
While not giving his own opinion, Mangione’s conclusion seems to show that homicide can be virtuous if the action is utilitarian – as in, being an action that maximizes happiness and well-being for the greatest number of people.
The comment is suggestive that gunning down the UnitedHealthcare CEO was a best serving measure for society given the private health insurance industry’s role as a middleman which gets to decide which claims are approved and by extension who may or may not get to live in certain instances or in other cases saddled with huge financial debt.
Great debate has existed whether public goods such as healthcare, education, transport, the internet ought to stay in the public realm and not be held in the private realm which has the imperative to place profits over people along with overall utilitarian benefit to society.
It remained unclear, to what degree, the suspect shooter was motivated by revolutionary zeal and to right the transgressions and overspill of capitalism.
