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Terry Newman: Montreal shooter was a revolutionary communist

Contrary to reports, Seth Hatfield's manifesto is about taking down capitalism through terrorism, not lashing out against women

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On Monday, in Montreal’s Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, 25-year-old Seth Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alta., is alleged to have carried out a shooting that resulted in the deaths of an officer and a civilian before he was fatally shot by police. Initial media reports described Hatfield as an “incel” who sought to target women. Yet his 104-page manifesto is unarguably pro-communist, anti-western and anti-Zionist. It blames what he sees as the displacement of monogamy not on women, but on capitalism and consumer culture.

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Hatfield argues that modern “hypergamy” — which he defines as the opposite of monogamy — has displaced monogamy as a direct consequence of this system. Under “high capitalism,” he argues, human relationships have been commodified, economic pressures have intensified sexual market inequalities and liberal consumer culture has eroded the conditions that once allowed average men to find mates.

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