Originally posted by pusher robot+December 06, 2007 02:07 am--> (pusher robot @ December 06, 2007 02:07 am)
Originally posted by
[email protected] 06, 2007 01:37 am
Originally posted by pusher
[email protected] 05, 2007 07:02 pm
[email protected] 05, 2007 10:26 pm
If a worker kills his boss or some politician, I would definitely consider it an act of self-defense.
Violence is already forced upon people...the question is, should people hit back?
That's not self-defense. Please stop mis-using this term.
Please stop using words altogether. Maybe that way you'll start to make more sense.
Resistance against political oppression was what brought about capitalism and defeated feudalism. Capitalist rule, like feudal rule, does no last for ever since both are coercion-based rule of the minority. Every time a cop kills a black man in the street, the rest of us has the right to hit back at them.
The first lesson of political science is that states have the "right" to use "legitimate force". They can give themselves all the legitimacy they want, and we still retain the right to strike back, "legitimate" or not.
Then call it what it is: armed conflict, defensive war, retaliatory strikes, whatever. "Self-defense" means defending oneself against imminent bodily harm or death. There's no need other than sophistry to use it in this context. [/b]
so in that manner you will assasinate the opressor and make revolution or war with lot of innocent victims?