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Wed 17 Jun, 2015 01:04 am
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On Violence[edit]
Arendt's essay On Violence distinguishes between violence and power. She maintains that, although theorists of both the Left and Right regard violence as an extreme manifestation of power, the two concepts are, in fact, antithetical. Power comes from the collective will and does not need violence to achieve any of its goals, since voluntary compliance takes its place. As governments start losing their legitimacy, violence becomes an artificial means toward the same end and is, therefore, found only in the absence of power. Bureaucracies then become the ideal birthplaces of violence since they are defined as the "rule by no one" against whom to argue and, therefore, recreate the missing links with the people they rule over.
@oristarA,
No, Ori
However am I missing something
@dalehileman,
dalehileman wrote:
No, Ori
However am I missing something
"Whom" refers to "the people they rule over" in "against whom to argue"?
@oristarA,
Frankly Ori, it's getting too complained for this 84-year-old. Still I'm happy to pick up on the simpler q's
Edited to remark however, "against whom to argue" refers to the nonexistent leadership
Probly not much help tho. But lotsa fellas around who think much more clearly than I, whom I suppose we should hear from soon