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   Anarchist Quotes (anarchistquotes@todon.eu)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 11:00:21 JST Anarchist Quotes

   If power is to be abolished it must be abolished not by force but by men's consciousness of its uselessness and evil.
   -- Leo Tolstoy

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     There are very few instances of peaceful revolutions taking place and an overwhelming amount of instances throughout the history of revolutions requiring force. If a peaceful revolution is possible, then that would be preferable, but most of the historical and modern-day revolutions suggest that the likelihood of a revolution being peaceful is not high. As revolutionaries, we must prepare for what is likely to happen.

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     @Radical_EgoCom @anarchistquotes As Walter Benjamin elegantly shows in his work on violence, the violence of the state is already present in society. It only “appears” sporadically, but it is always already there. Ask the BDS protesters. People calling for social change are unlikely to be treated kinder than students have been. And remember Clinton has effectively justified political violence, killing “civilians” to get to “terrorists”. Violence will not bow to peace.