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Does Baudrillard Support Suicide and Mass Murder as Legitimate Forms of Protest?

I'm almost finished with *Symbolic Exchange and Death*, and some of Baudrillard's depictions of resistance are... disturbing. "All death that escapes the state monopoly is subversive... hence the fascination wielded by great murderers... More and more commit suicide in prison... the rebellious Blacks setting fire to their own district... the death drive is the only alternative", (p.195-7). 

I can understand death-as-protest in the form of hunger strikes and sit-ins. I understand martyrdom. I know when Baudrillard says "death" he is usually referring to loss and expenditure of all kinds, but he seems to have an evil kind of death in mind here. If he doesn't, I find it bizarre that he uses serial killers as exemplars of death-as-protest rather than MLK or Ghandi.

What nonviolent protest he does advocate seems utterly banal to me. I don't see how meaningless graffiti and poetry are supposed to change or improve anything. I understand that these refuse to play the "game of signs" and so are technically a rejection of the system, but if no one knows what they're protesting it's hard for me to see the point.

I'm having great difficulty understanding the final chapter, but maybe he makes sense of all this there.
gpt
>hence the fascination wielded by great murderers

How are you getting an endorsement of mass murder as a legitimate form of protest from the mere *observation* that people are fascinated by mass murderers?