"Do you support violent revolution?" You know what? I'm really tired of those who justify, or at best are silent about, the legalized execution of workers by bomb or policeman wagging their moralizing fingers about the masses using violence to defend themselves. Bugger off.
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Meh. I I don't think that's the claim. I know it isn't overtly the claim, and I don't think it can be reasonably reduced to that, either.
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American Revolution, US Civil War French Revolution, spade of bourgeois national revolutions in 1848, Paris Commune, Bolshevik Revolution, &c &c, it was not, "Let's use violence to make this complex system work. " +
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It was, "These people standing in the way of human rights control the armed might of the state. Let's stop them from killing us, shall we?"
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which of those conflicts produced lasting social structures relates a lot to whether they were focused on negative rights or positive rights, innit?
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