"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.
it all depends on what you mean, sure; as alluded to earlier you can stow away all kinds of positive rights in "equality" if you're motivated, and as you say, a negative right to life is very different from a positive right to life
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do we conceive of a right to, what, have the world around one not have war in it? that's a negative. if we conceive of a right to *live* in a world without war that gets stickier
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"Authoritarianism" always comes in, at least in a revolution that means business, in order for the new class to protect itself from counter-revolution. This authoritarianism is always relaxed as the new ruling class no longer feels itself threatened. Then returns as needed.
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