I mean, yes, that’s how it works. Humans are not stupid, not always outright violence is used where it’s optimal, but if it were never optimal it wouldn’t exist.
I’ve also started getting interest in early Soviet cinema, its political component is, maybe counterintuitively for us now, that the most decently-looking revolutionary ideology is anarchism, and those movies are full of direct or hidden polemic with various kinds of anarchism in advocacy of bolshevism. And that polemic is still relevant.
People actually well-versed in Soviet ideology actually just love being approached with anarchist positions, including even ancap. That’s what they want to argue with, and the general positioning of problems is similar with various kinds of anarchism. While the rest of political ideologies they treat as something long discarded and not interesting to discuss. I repeat, Stalinists who know something about Stalinist ideology, won’t respect a fascist, but will be just happy to explain to an anarcho-capitalist how their ideology is an improvement on anarchism.
So, returning to violence, there are situations when limitations on violence, formally perfectly consistent, are limiting only violence against one side.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Where Is My Mind by The Pixies starts playing