People base their thoughts on what war is like from pop culture, and don't realize what a horrible and idiotic thing it is. The military is the greatest divider of the working class, it pits brother against brother, sister against sister in a battle where both sides lose. According to the mainstream corporate media, I'm a violent thug hellbent on destroying everything in my path, some aspects of the media would even label me a terrorist. I mean McDonald's slaughters hundreds of millions of animals a year, destroys the rain forest in Brazil through the creation of farmland, which in turn leads to a completely unsustainable economy for the Brazilian farmers, who then become dependent on selling animals to McDonalds, instead of growing their own food, and creating their own industry, not to mention the fact that McDonald's is one of the richest corporations in the world, yet pays it's workers the standard minimum wage. Of course the latter isn't shown on TV, so the average person doesn't think it happen.
Violence is defined as oppression.
A reaction to oppression is therefore anti-violent. It seems to me that when I spend my day working away at something, then my boss takes credit for it and is rewarded, I feel used. This my friends is how capitalism works. If I work hard at something, I want to be compensated, I don't want to give the wealth generated from my work to some greedy old bastard who sits in a bathtub full of money all day. The concept of profit, is essentially legalized theft.