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populicide

/pɔ.py.li.sid/

adjective/pɔ.py.li.sid/

exterminatory (towards humans); populicidal

"Il s’agit d’établir, selon les expressions de Rousseau, que « le terrain n’est à personne, mais à tous ; » que tout ce que l’individu accapare au-delà de la subsistance est un vol social, » que le droit d’aliénabilité est « un attentat populicide », expression qui pour cette fois appartient à Babeuf, assez riche en néologismes."It is a question of establishing that, according to Rousseau’s expressions, ‘the land is not for nobody, but for everybody’, that everything that the individual occupies beyond sustenance is social theft, that the right of alienability is ‘an exterminatory attack’, an expression that in this case comes from Babeuf, so rich with neologisms.

From Latin populus (“community; people; nation”) + French -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’). The word populicides was coined by the French journalist and revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) in 1795 to describe the massacre of 117,000 farmers in the Vendée region during the French Revolution.

noun, masculine/pɔ.py.li.sid/plural: populicides

populicide (extermination)

A peine les supplices de l’an 64 finissaient-ils, que la guerre implacable de l’an 66 commençait la torture du peuple juif, si justement appelée par Salvador « un populicide. »Barely any torments from ’64 were ending when the harsh war of ’66 started Jewry’s torment, so rightfully called by Salvador ‘a populicide.’

From Latin populus (“community; people; nation”) + French -cide (suffix meaning ‘killing’). The word populicides was coined by the French journalist and revolutionary François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) in 1795 to describe the massacre of 117,000 farmers in the Vendée region during the French Revolution.

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