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Is Political Violence Ever Acceptable? (www.thenation.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Funny how it only focuses on political violence from the left. I mean, yeah the government is completely owned by the right at the moment, but it seems odd to completely ignore the other side

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I think it's meant to be an internal debate about the left's tactics. It's not meant to ignore or minimize very real right-wing violence.