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Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable?

Natasha Lennard argues that it’s harmful to acquiesce to the state’s determinations of violence, while David Cortright writes that violent acts prevent mass resistance movements.

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Well obviously fucking yes. Pick a random successful political movement and there's a 99% chance it had a violent wing. I know that Americans are only taught the sanitized versions of many of this stuff, but come on.
- That's really the issue. Americans have been brainwashed to think civil disobedience is what won their civil rights. The violence, often initiated by the state against the people, is whitewashed as small skirmishes rather than being prevalent in most protests and the resistance to it needs to be prepared.

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