why violence works

[Mark Kohut]

Ahmed Ali, the Egyptian defense ministry spokesman, said the military was needed to quell violent protests. "When dealing with terrorism, the consideration of civil and human rights are not applicable," Mr. Ali said.


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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