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Civilization And Barbarism By Caudillo

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In Civilization and Barbarism: the dangerous classes, they talk about the slaughterhouses and what goes on in them as well as the people who run it. They are horrible people who take pride in what they do. They slaughter animals and take to heart what their leader tells them. They are forced to wear a symbol to recognize who is their boss and who they belong to. They may run the plant but someone also runs them. They consider themselves free but not the type of free we have in our minds. They are black and mulatos, and people still consider them slaves . “ In the shed the slaughterhouse officials collect corral fees and levy fines for rule violations under the supervision of the slaughterhouse judge a person of importance, the caudillo of the butchers who exercises supreme power”. The caudillo in this story runs a group of men in the slaughter house and he enforces the laws set by the restorer. But just as they torment the animals the torment a young man who comes by on horse who in their eyes is disobeying the restorer and they seek to mess around with him and teach him a lesson. the eventually go on to killing the man because they said he went to far but the caudillo had all the power to tell his men to kill him but says that wasn't his original plan. the caudillo is very powerful in this story but only has power to one group of people but has a hierarchy.

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