why violence works & AtD

[Mark Kohut]

"People are now planting bombs in the tramways of Algiers. My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice, then I prefer my mother.” ---Albert Camus
 
Three days after the press conference, Camus sent a letter to Le Monde clarifying his view—and this letter, too, appears in the appendix of this volume. He wrote: “I would also like to say, in regard to the young Algerian who questioned me, that I feel closer to him than to many French people who speak about Algeria without knowing. He knew what he was talking about, and his face reflected not hatred but despair and unhappiness. I share that unhappiness.”
 
Contrary to some very good readers of TRP's Against the Day, I still believe that P's vision of the violent acts of the Traverses, for example, are 
seen by TRP the author as 'sharing their unhappiness" and knowing their reasons but 
 
preferring not to. Morally. 
 
Just sayin'
 
 

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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