Judging rebellion by ethics serves the violence of the powerful, not the oppressed.

Evidence

In terms of ethics, both forms of violence are inhuman and evilbut since when is history made in accordance with ethical standards? To start applying them at the point where the oppressed rebel against the oppressors, the have-nots against the haves is serving the cause of actual violence by weakening the protest against it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 646

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls Marcuse’s distinction of revolutionary versus reactionary violence on historical-function rather than ethical grounds, from the Frankfurt School history chapters. — connects to: Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737; Sovereign violence operates without needing rational or ethical justification
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737; Sovereign violence operates without needing rational or ethical justification

Broader Connections

• Oppression does not confer virtue but breeds potential violence in victims #complicates (0.78) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 737