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Violence and Antiviolence

@ | 29.03.2011 14:27 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

Violence and Antiviolence

“...The state acquired a monopoly of physical violence, which is legally regulated and only the state has the right to kill (legal death penalty), to exercise violence against any social group and criminalizing violence in all other social institutions or in different fields of action. At best, this was done to control the violence and there are constitutional guarantees to the respective legal instruments to reduce it. But the violence of the state, open or hidden, there is always a component of item itself...” Max Weber, Politics of a Vocation.

Violence is not a concept good or bad. The violence is directly related to life itself on earth. It can not be ignored or eliminated. Beyond good and evil of ethics, violence is an element of nature and human life. It is in life, located in nature and everyday life. It is polymorphic. It is authoritarian or liberating, repressive or insurrectionary. It is necessary. It is something we can not deny it, because there simply are not able to uproot it as long and tough as we try. Therefore we can not talk about violence and non violence. We can not be supporters or critics in general and vague, since this would lead to an endless and pointless prolixity. By the same reasoning should be considered to be nugatory “the condemnation of violence from wherever it comes from” and those who advocate this, if they meant their words and trying to implement a departure from “every form of violence” they would seem like beings floating in a vacuum.

The violence since the debut/outbreak of the “bourgeois legality”, the parliamentarism, not only ceased to play a historic role, but it is today also, as in all previous seasons, the base of the ruling politic class. The capitalist state as a whole is based on violence and its military organization is itself a tangible proof.
Institutionally acceptable form of violence is poverty, unemployment, the threat of dismissal, a form of violence is to live with the horror of survival. But a violence that tends to get the dimensions of a “natural” evil, a violence that will not criminalized in any court and the perpetrators will enjoy a smooth immunity.

As every action brings a reaction, so that violence brings anti-violence. The socially revolutionary violence. It is necessary to destroy the existing authoritarian system and within the framework of the social competition that can not defy a peaceful solution, at least from the authoritarian side, anti-violence is indispensable as a tool for personal and social liberation. The use of anti-violence, on the one hand prove its instrumental role in the movements and the revolts - it is the mean
not the end- on the other hand the liberating context of the aggressive act itself. The attack clearly indicate the responsible and partisans of the exploitation and oppression system and compose simultaneously a small but comprehensive blow against them. Even declare the belief that substantially there is no respect at all for these institutions which violently and daily crushed our lives. Only coercion. At the time of the widespread conflict and the use of anti violence the authority is challenged, the coercion is raised and the social subjects attacked again in ministries, banks, police stations and the department stores, realizing that all they have to offer is the brief joy of their destruction. We suggest, then, social violence as one of the means for the state's destruction and its exploitative relationships.

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