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What is 'Redemptive Violence'?
This is a phrase I've heard recently. Some have been saying that its an important part of Marxist and other 'authoritarian' ideologies like Fascism.
But the thing is, I've not been able to find a really good definition of just what Redemptive Violence actually is. Is it about revolutionary violence? A romantic view of violence? Is it just an excuse some regimes use to excuse mass murder?
I'd like some help, because this has really been confusing the hell out of me.
"I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body." -Big Bill Haywood
"...Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor."- Thomas Jefferson
-=UTOPIA IS THE MORAL RIGHT OF HUMANITY=-
It would be the belief that the good ones have to get violent to conquer evil, it's ok to get violent for a good cause or whatever.
It's called a "myth" by the media, "violence is never necessary, blah blah". Of course this is quickly forgotten when it's time to invade Iraq or whoever is receiving the designation as the official bad people at the moment.
For what I have seen - admittedly not much - it has nothing to do with specific ideologies such as Marxism or even fascism. I have seen it quoted in the context of discussion of ancient myth (such as the Babylonian myth of the creation of the world) and modern cartoons (such as Popeye and his endless fights with Bluto), but not in the context of revolutionary violence.
Luís Henrique
The world is not as it is, but as it is constructed.
Falsely attributed to Lenin
