I mean if you take the guillotine to be a stand-in for retributive violence directed at the elites (which is incidentally not what the actual guillotine was for) then there’s actually a good deal of that historically, though it’s rarely as explicit as—say—the execution of Louis XVI. The assassins of Julius Caesar (among other things, a popular reformist politician at the time) for instance tended to be executed or kill themselves in the subsequent civil war.
Yeah, ancient history is full of gold plated statues, and not a guillotine in sight for thousands and thousands of years.
I mean if you take the guillotine to be a stand-in for retributive violence directed at the elites (which is incidentally not what the actual guillotine was for) then there’s actually a good deal of that historically, though it’s rarely as explicit as—say—the execution of Louis XVI. The assassins of Julius Caesar (among other things, a popular reformist politician at the time) for instance tended to be executed or kill themselves in the subsequent civil war.