power

catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au catherine.driscoll at adelaide.edu.au
Mon Dec 2 17:03:22 PST 2002


Frank Scott writes:


>"...More discussion and argument
>by all means, but power and violence are the problem, not the solution."
>
>agree about violence, of course, but let's be careful about
>power...rather nice and necessary to have it, exercised democratically,
>and especially not exercised against people, or over people, but in
>common...the word can have many definitions, but lets be careful not to
>confuse it with oppresion and other things that are not inherent in
>power, but in its exercise...

Yes, and, moreover, there is no social relation that does not involve power.



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