why violence works

[Mark Kohut]

Lots of damned slippery slope sloppy thinking herein, in my opinion. 
One major way: if there was even the smallest amount of 'violence' , say
by some protestors during MLK's avowed and promises-kept non-violent marches
for civil rights, say, then he says that too had violence...
 
The interim Egyptian Gov't, after turning on and shooting its own protesting citizens,
then declared a 'state of emergency' because of all the chaotic violence.....yeah. 

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 4:59 AM
Subject: why violence works


This outlook is implied by Mao Zedong's well-known aphorism that
political power "grows out of the barrel of a gun." Violence, in other
words, is the driving force of politics, while peaceful forms of
political engagement fill in the details or, perhaps, merely offer
post-hoc justifications for the outcomes of violent struggles. Mao
corrected Clausewitz by characterizing politics as a sequel to or even
an epiphenomenon of violence—a continuation of violence by other
means.


http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Violence-Works/140951/
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