Common liberal understanding of the phrase in political context is not what you would think it is.
It’s just plain old “violence”. Notably, violence against the opressors. They are perfectly ok with violence used by the opressors - well they grumble some but, here is the important part, since basically all meaningful change not to mention such fundamental one as revolution are done by the violent means, they will always in fact oppose any meaningful progress - which really means supporting the status quo and the opression.
Common liberal understanding of the phrase in political context is not what you would think it is.
It’s just plain old “violence”. Notably, violence against the opressors. They are perfectly ok with violence used by the opressors - well they grumble some but, here is the important part, since basically all meaningful change not to mention such fundamental one as revolution are done by the violent means, they will always in fact oppose any meaningful progress - which really means supporting the status quo and the opression.
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That does seem to be the case. That’s a great quote, too. I had a very shallow interpretation of the word “violence” when I was a liberal