Political institutions perpetuate the violence that founded them

Evidence

What in fact has happened in the course of the civilizing process, is the redeployment of violence, and the re-distribution of access to violence. Like so many other things which we have been trained to abhor and detest, violence has been taken out of sight, rather than forced out of existence. It has become invisible, that is, from the vantage point of narrowly circumscribed and privatized personal experience. It has been enclosed instead in segregated and isolated territories, on the whole inaccessible to ordinary members of society; or evicted to the ‘twilight areas’, off-limits for a large majority (and the majority which counts) of society’s members; or exported to distant places which on the whole are irrelevant for the life-business of civilized humans (one can always cancel holiday bookings). — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285 (#complicates, via linked claim)

It may be that war as strategy is a continuation of politics. But it must not be forgotten that ‘politics’ has been conceived as a continuation, if not exactly and directly of war, at least of the military model as a fundamental means of preventing civil disorder. Politics, as a technique of internal peace and order, sought to implement the mechanism of the perfect army, of the disciplined mass, of the docile, useful troop, of the regiment in camp and in the field, on manoeuvres and on exercises. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 252 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Systematic bureaucratic destruction replaced spontaneous atrocity in the camps; State institutions secretly organized mob violence through the press; Modern civilization centralizes rather than abolishes violence — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 284 (+9 more)

Related

• Modern civilization centralizes rather than abolishes violence (similarity 0.83)
• The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it (similarity 0.81)
• Civilization makes violence aversion irrelevant through bureaucratic complicity (similarity 0.81)
• State institutions secretly organized mob violence through the press (similarity 0.80)
• Politics inherited the military model as a means of preventing civil disorder (similarity 0.80)
• A dominant imperial power can cap sectarian violence while institutionalizing its basis. (similarity 0.79)
• Monopoly of violence within precise borders is distinctive to the modern state (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• European states consolidated power through monopolizing violence and administration. #expands (0.78)
• The civilizing process makes violence invisible rather than eliminating it #complicates (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 285
• The revolution’s leaders often met deaths mirroring the violence they sanctioned #exemplifies (0.72) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1674
• Confinement of sanctioned violence to places was meant to circumscribe it #qualifies (0.72) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 252
• Politics inherited the military model as a means of preventing civil disorder #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 252