Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 18:23:46 -0500 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pen-l] corporate executives speaking up
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: The people do not commit violence; the state and its arms (police, national guard, the military, etc) commit violence. The people defend themselves, as best they can and with the available tactics, against that violence. Nonsense. Resistance movements can't use violence? Violence is defined as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, [...]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence#cite_note-who.int-2 ----------- The term 'violence' obscures the distinction between aggression and defense. Afaik, the aggressors always seek to redescribe their actions as defense, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. E.
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