[lbo-talk] Foonote to RE: violence

[Billy O'Connor]

"Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
>
> There is one difficulty in this debate: "Non-violence" is a tactical
> principle (as a moral or absolute principle it becomes a form of
> scabbing.)  Hence one can debate it. But "Violence" is not a principle
> of any kind; it is an empty generalization, naming nothing
> specific. We don't have a word, it seems, to express a principle
> opposite' to Non-Violence. That causes considerable confusion, and I
> don't know how that confusion can be clarified.
>
> Sometimes good results are achieved by killing people. The Paris
> Commune would not have lasted a day without willingness to kill.

That's great, about the scabbing.  Can you elaborate?