There is no greater hypocrisy than to consider only revolutionary violence as violence, while pretending to forget the institutional violence that gives rise to it and the repressive violence that seeks to crush it.
flash on Nostr: ⚡️💬 FLASH - Before judging violence, let’s look at what causes it. There are ...
⚡️💬 FLASH - Before judging violence, let’s look at what causes it. There are three types of violence: institutional violence—the root of all the others—which grinds down millions of people in its well-oiled machinery. Then there is revolutionary violence, which stems from the desire to abolish this institutional violence. And there is a third type of violence: the repressive violence of the state.
There is no greater hypocrisy than to consider only revolutionary violence as violence, while pretending to forget the institutional violence that gives rise to it and the repressive violence that seeks to crush it.
There is no greater hypocrisy than to consider only revolutionary violence as violence, while pretending to forget the institutional violence that gives rise to it and the repressive violence that seeks to crush it.