[lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks

Philip Pilkington pilkingtonphil at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 19:32:50 PDT 2009



>
> That's nice, now we know how many were imprisoned. We still don't have
> any evidence of increased violence. Is possession of cannabis a newly
> minted violent crime? We need to know the breakdown for violent crimes
> vs drugs/related and other non-violent crimes.
>
> Percy
>
>

Can I just point out, for the last time, and I think I have the right because I started this conversation: "violence" does not necessarily mean physical violence. I could be violent to you right now without moving away from my keyboard. In this instance the very imprisoning of these people IS the violence in question. I mean I'm not trying to skew the terminology in some "specialist" manner. Just look up the standard dictionary definition:

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/violence

Perhaps our very aversion to what the term violence is supposed to connote is in itself proof of an increase in social disintegration and anomie. This is certainly a case of a term losing much of its value so that people can't even recognise violence AS violence any more...



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