Without mobilized bodies there is no state power, only violence.

Evidence

Arendt explained that, owing to this fundamental corporeal dependence, the power of the state—even in the most authoritarian of regimes—must, despite everything, be power and not pure violence. There is no power without bodies. But, as she in a way acknowledged, the reciprocal statement is true: with no bodies mobilized, there is no longer any power. — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 697 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

These means include violence because in a world where oppression is maintained by violence from above, it is only possible to liquidate it with violence from below. Ultimately, once the struggle reaches a certain point, arms in hand are indispensable. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 10 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: State power requires mobilized bodies and collapses without them — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 697; Violence from above can only be ended by violence from below — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 10

Related

• State power requires mobilized bodies and collapses without them (similarity 0.92)
• State power depends materially on the bodies citizens lend it. (similarity 0.85)
• Violence from above can only be ended by violence from below (similarity 0.84)
• State power depends on borrowing the bodies of its subjects (similarity 0.80)
• Dronization aims to build a bodiless state force of pure machines (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• State power requires mobilized bodies and collapses without them #corroborates (0.90) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 697
• Violence from above can only be ended by violence from below #expands (0.40) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 10