Why this word is great
CLASSICIDE — [Noun] The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class. From class (referring to a social class) + -icide (denoting killing or destruction), it is the erasure not of bloodlines but of economic and cultural strata. Unlike "genocide" (which targets identity rooted in ancestry or creed) or "politicide" (which annihilates ideological adversaries), classicide dismantles the scaffolding of hierarchy itself. It is the burning of manors during peasant revolts, the confiscation of bourgeois property in revolutions, or the liquidation of intellectuals in purges—each an attempt to flatten the human landscape into featureless uniformity, as if society could be cured of its gradients. The tragedy is that new hierarchies always emerge from the ashes, like weeds through cracked pavement.