RE: Is peaceful revolution possible?
October 7, 2021 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2021 at 4:20 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 7, 2021 at 4:12 am)Macoleco Wrote: Is peaceful revolution possible?
I’ve been thinking about this question, and I feel the answer is NO.
We are taught that violence is always bad, and that we should use peaceful options such as dialogue to change society. But this is clearly contradictory with reality. The powerful employ violence to keep us under control. Why then is it forbidden for us?
History has taught us that violence has been fundamental in social change. Take the French Revolution for example.
I know violence is ugly. But I think that, at least for now, it is still needed. Society still hasn’t advanced to the point where violence isn’t needed anymore.
in my opinion continuous progress that never needs intermittent violence to facilitate is in principle impossible. it is not a matter of whether we are advanced enough. it s a matter of it being almost an immutable emergent law of large group behavior under compulsion to change and against the self interest of some groups to resist the change.
long term peace is a state that is made possible by credible threat of descent to destructive violence, and the credibility of decent into destructive violence must be renewed periodically by actual descent into destructive violence.
