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First published June 1, 2000
Perhaps the leopards symbolized something. A leopard is a wild beast. Capitalists are ferocious in their greed for profit and their exploitation of the proletariat. Killing a leopard in a zoo might be a way of demonstrating to the capitalists that their days were numbered. But, reasoned Mousy, workers are also ferocious when demanding their rights or going on strike. How to differentiate the ferocity of one class form that of the other? How to tell progressive ferocity from its reactionary counterpart? Could the answer be to leave an explanatory message at the side of the executed leopard, explaining that the animal had been sacrificed to serve as an example to those in power?