{"id":256685,"date":"2025-02-12T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=256685"},"modified":"2025-02-10T17:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T17:10:24","slug":"legalised-brutality","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/legalised-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalised brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boxer John Cooney died from a brain injury after losing last week&#8217;s super-featherweight bout in Belfast. The spectacle of boxing is symptomatic of a society that fosters reckless individualism and violence and calls it \u2018sport\u2019. There was no condemnation of this organised brutality, just empty talk of how sad and unfortunate it was.<\/p>\n<p>How symptomatic of a society that presents as entertainment and \u2018natural\u2019 the spectacle of two human beings beating the hell out of each other. Never has it been more urgent to create a new society without pervasive insecurity and the cheap thrills offered as a way of patching it over &#8211; a society of cooperation and reciprocity, where capital no longer controls people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-256685","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/256685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}