Wilful effort is required to produce the appearance of subjectless violence.
Related
- Nonviolent mass action handed liberation to the petit bourgeoisie (similarity 0.84)
- Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.82)
- Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.81)
- Elite police rule requires admitting neutral masses to bolster itself (similarity 0.81)
- Hegemonic rule works through patient strategic struggle rather than frontal assault. (similarity 0.81)
- Social stability must never come at the cost of necessary change or social justice (similarity 0.80)
- Dominant powers benefit from engineering their subjects’ inability to trust (similarity 0.80)
- Wright saw capitalism’s destruction coming from its own brutalized social force (similarity 0.80)
- Law exists to reduce the severity of trust-violation losses (similarity 0.80)
- A unified hierarchical mafia reduces internal conflict and public violence. (similarity 0.80)
- Essentialist identity politics can be a necessary defense where no alternative exists. (similarity 0.79)
- So-called objective accounts encode the standpoint of the powerful (similarity 0.79)
- Active violence in reality obscures our access to the world’s poetic force (similarity 0.79)
- Violence leaves its object forcibly transformed, not merely injured physically. (similarity 0.79)
- Enlightenment thinkers argued slaves had the right to violent resistance (similarity 0.79)