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Politicide is a punk band formed in the early 80's. Their song "51st State" appeared on the Bullshit Detector compilation. Reformed in 2002.


Politicide is a form of mass, targeted killings in which a group of people are destroyed because of their political or ideological beliefs. It is similar to genocide, but different in that politicide does not specifically target ethnic, racial or cultural groups.


The phrase is sometimes used to describe the campaigns of killing committed by Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union, in which many individuals were killed because of their anti-communist or "bourgeois" political views. Large groups of anarchists and libertarian socialists were also systematically killed by Stalin. The phrase is also used sometimes to describe the US support to dictatorships that killed communists or alledged communists.


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Politicide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (231 words)
Politicide is a neologism, literally translated as "political murder".
It is similar to genocide, but different in that politicide does not specifically target ethnic, racial or cultural groups.
He defines "the politicide of the Palestinian people, a gradual but systematic attempt to cause their annihilation as an independent political and social entity".
xymphora (1722 words)
Politicide is a process whose ultimate aim is to destroy a certain people’s prospects - indeed, their very will - for legitimate self-determination and sovereignty over land they consider their homeland.
Politicide includes a mixture of martial, political, social and psychological measures.
Like many other immigrant-settler societies it was born in sin, on the ruins of another culture that had suffered politicide and partial ethnic cleansing - although the Zionist state did not succeed in annihilating the rival indigenous culture, as many other immigrant-settler societies have done.
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