Violent Overthrow

In part I've learned from you – and you can tell me whether you recognize that this formulation or not – is start with any appealing social idea. That's step one. Step two ask what is the absolute minimum level of violence and coercion that would be necessary to accomplish that idea. Now add that to the original idea, do you still find your original idea attractive? And that this flips many of these propositions into territory where I suddenly realized that something that people see is being very attractive actually can only be accomplished with so much misery even if it's done maximally efficiently that it's no longer a good idea.— Eric WeinsteinViolent revolution
Violent ideology; Rationalisation of violence
Category:Politics
Category:Aggression