8. Social contract underwriting food riots: you give us food for set price. In times of scarcity we should we should share.
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9. Based on excellent work of
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10. Underlying protests against police violence is unwritten social contract: police monopoly on violence loses legitimacy when abused
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11. Like the food riot, anti-police riot is about holding authority accountable when social contract is broken.
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12. To talk about mob violence and looting is to willfully ignore the politics that are always at the heart of popular protests.
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13. If riots are response to authorities breaking social contract, then it is actually insane to think a show of force will solve problem
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14. Social contract is a serious thing. Most people don't step outside of it except under extreme circumstances.
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15. And from point of view of protesters: they are not ones who broke the social contract. Authorities have.
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16. I could be wrong, but my sense is that Thompson, Hobsbawm, Zemon Davis etc. aren't in fashion right now in broader academy.
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17. A bit of hunch, but it seems like police theories of "crowd control" now in use are throw-back to 19th century mob violence literature
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19. Important amendment to twitter-essay. As
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20. Among the many who I should've mentioned but didn't, two spring to mind: C.L.R. James and Robin D.G. Kelley.
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