What are the consequences of violence in this world?

The
ideology
of
nonviolence
has come to play a major role in political struggles in the United States of America and, indeed, in nations around the
world
. Almost every organization seeking radical
change
in the USA has been targeted by organizers for the
nonviolence
movement. Organizations like Earth
First
!, which originally did not subscribe to the
ideology
of
nonviolence
, have since
then
adopted that
ideology
or at least its set of rules for protest and civil disobedience. Yet
nonviolence
activists have put little energy into bringing their creed to establishment, reactionary, or openly violent organizations. In
this
essay it
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essay, it
will be argued that
nonviolence
encourages
violence
by the
state
and corporations. The
ideology
of
nonviolence
creates effects opposite to what it promises.
As a result
nonviolence
ideologists cooperate in the ongoing destruction of the environment, in continued repression of powerless, and in
U
The objective case of we, the persons speaking
us
.S./
corporate
Suggestion
Corporate
attacks on people in foreign nations. To minimize
violence we
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violence, we
must adopt a pragmatic,
reality
-based method of operation. I agree that
violence
, properly defined, is bad. It should, ideally,
not be
Suggestion
is not
was not
wasn't
part of how humans deal with each other. I believe that a
society
should and can be created where no
state
, economic entity, or religion uses
violence
against people. In
such
a
society people
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society, people
can achieve their individual and collective goals through voluntary cooperation. But when you scrape the make-up off the face of the
ideology
of
Nonviolence
, there you will find, grinning, the very
violence
it pretends to oppose. Much of the ability of the corporate
state
to neutralize its
opposition
in the USA (and elsewhere) depends on
purposeful confusion
Suggestion
a purposeful confusion
the purposeful confusion
of the language used to discuss the issues. It is important to distinguish exactly what is meant by
violence
, not being violent, and the
ideology
of
Nonviolence
. Most people have a pretty clear idea of what
violence
is: hitting people, stabbing them, shooting them,
on
Suggestion
at
of
for
up to incinerating people with napalm or atomic weapons. Not being violent is simply not causing physical harm to someone. But
gray
of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black
grey
areas abound. What about stabbing an animal? What about allowing someone to starve because they cannot find means to pay for food? What about coercing
behavior
manner of acting or controlling yourself
behaviour
through the threat of
violence
? Through the threat of losing a job?
Violence
as a dichotomy, with the only choices being
Violence
or
Non-
Suggestion
Nonviolence
violence
, is not a very useful basis for political discussion, unless you want to confuse people.
Violence
, the word, must be modified and illustrated to be useful for discussion. In
this
essay
violence
against animals, plants, and inanimate objects will be distinguished from
violence
against humans.
Violence
, unmodified, will always mean direct
violence
, actual bashing of people, and will be distinguished from the threat of
violence
, as when laws are
passes
Suggestion
passed
with violent penalties attached.
Also
distinguished will be economic
violence
, as when economic activity leads to physical harm to humans,
such
as starvation or disease. Other methods of categorizing
violence
need to be distinguished,
such
as
violent
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violent, self
self-
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
against violent predation. The
ideology
of
nonviolence
will from
this
point on be distinguished from ordinary not-being violent by capitalizing it
thus
:
Nonviolence
. Most people are not-violent most of the time. Even soldiers and policemen spend more time in a not-violent
state
than actually committing violent acts. Most social-
change
activists, including environmentalists, have little or no experience with inflicting
violence
on other people. Yet the
Nonviolence
activists target social
change
activists with their doctrine, rather than teaching it to those policemen, soldiers, politicians and businessmen who do occasionally practice
violence
.
Nonviolence
claims to have found a method to bring
violence
to an end. The fact that it has not worked at all so far has not deterred the adherents of
Nonviolence
from marching onward towards their millennium. If only more people would listen to us, our dreams would come true, they say.
On the other
hand they
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hand, they
like to claim that non-
violence
has a remarkable track-record of success, with the gold-
medalists
someone who has won a medal
medallists
of the
Nonviolence
Olympics usually being put forward as Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
Nonviolence
ideology
states that
violence
begets
violence
. Since the goal is a non-violent
society
, (even if other goals are included
such
as economic justice, national self-determination, etc.), only nonviolent actions can be used in struggles to
change
society
.
Thus
one may argue (politely), publish, vote, and assemble in protest. At the extreme edge of
Nonviolence
ideology
lies the Holy Grail: non-violent civil disobedience.
Nonviolence
has but one prescription for all social diseases. It prescribes Gandhi-brand aspirin for everything from a headache to terminal cancer. But the social diseases of the real
world
are complex, not simple. To gain a proper perspective on what political tools are best used to cure which social diseases you need to be well-informed of the nature of
society
and of the variety of political tools that are available. It should not surprise anyone that given the complex (and advanced) natures of our social diseases, a one-size fits all political solution is not likely to succeed. To put
this
is less
colorful
having striking color
colourful
terms, to
change
reality
Suggestion
the reality
you must know
reality
. You cannot pretend that
aspects
Suggestion
aspect
of
reality
do not exist just because there is nowhere to put them in your ideological box. It does not matter whether your
ideology
is
Nonviolence
, or Marxism, or Free-Market Capitalism;
reality
will do what it wants to do. So let us examine some aspects of
reality
. The goal to keep in mind is the minimization of global
violence
(the total amount of
violence
against humans on earth. Preferably including economic
violence
and even threats of
violence
). The failure to oppose
violence
encourages or allows
violence
, and the effectiveness of
opposition
directly correlates with the level of discouragement of
violence
. But the
opposition
needed to stop the rape of a woman may vary greatly according to circumstances (particularly, the personality and experience of the rapist).
Such
situations can be only of metaphorical use in
analyzing
consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning
analysing
the
opposition
needed to stop a sugar corporation from bribing presidents and congressmen to order the US Army to murder 2 million peasants in order to take their land (as happened when the US grabbed the Philippines in 1898). Since
Nonviolence
has only one solution to all problems, it can only offer degrees of Nonviolent action for any given situation. For rape I suppose you are supposed to Nonviolently interpose yourself between the rapist and the intended victim. If the rapist has a history of rapes, you can talk to him and tell him about how much better his life would be if he adopted
Nonviolence
as a way of living. For
war
Suggestion
the war
against
third
world
peasants you can Up the Level of
Nonviolence
. You can call for
Massive Nonviolent Protest
Suggestion
a Massive Nonviolent Protest
. You can sit in front of a Federal Building for a few minutes before being hauled away by the police, most probably being released after being given a ticket. I should point out here that I have chosen two examples that I know cause ordinary people and even people who believe in
Nonviolence
to question its effectiveness.
That is
to make clear that
violence
as an automatic solution to social problems is just as out of touch with
reality
as
Nonviolence
. But I must emphasize that
violence
is
counter-productive
tending to hinder the achievement of a goal
counterproductive
in most situations. Situations that are about to escalate into
violence
can often be diffused by wise intervention, by talking or physically placing oneself between antagonists. In bar-room fights on TV usually once two people start fighting the entire bar crowd starts throwing chairs around, but in
reality
in most bars friends of the drunken boxers pull them apart until they can calm down. At all levels of
society
self-
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
discourages aggression, and is a far better principle (when extended to the idea of community
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
and
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
of Mother Earth) to use as a starting point than
Nonviolence
. The normal interpretation of self and community
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
, arrived at after millennia of experimentation by almost all societies on earth, is that you can use as much
violence
as is necessary to bring an end to the current attack. Of course,
this
is a matter of judgement. It is
also
a
favorite
something regarded with special favor or liking
favourite
plea of hypocrites. The Romans used
self-
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
as a pretext for their village to conquer and rule a territory extending from England to Judea. The “American People” have self-defended themselves from the villages of Roanoke and Plymouth across
this
continent to the Pacific and on to Hawaii and the Philippines.
Nevertheless
,
self-
defense
(military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies
defence
is not only a right, but a duty. A community that refuses to defend itself against aggression encourages
further
aggression. Under the rules of
Nonviolence
aggressors always win. There is nothing to stop them from marching around the
world
, taking what they want, killing those who are inconvenient, and congratulating themselves.
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