Discussion Is there really such a thing as a political protest that is 100% non violent?

[Deleted member 39864]

One of the key components of the government is that they have a monopoly on violence, as Mao Zedong said "political power grows out of the barrel of the gun." If you are applying effort into getting a law passed, it means you want that law to be enforced to a degree in which those who go against it have violence utilized against them, and those who think about breaking such law are put in a state of fear of violence being utilized against them. So therefore, any type of political movement or protest, is by default violent.

 

[PoodankMcGee]

Yeah government is inherently coercive and backed with the threat of force/violence.

When people talk about a non violent protest or movement i guesd they really just mean the activism itself is not based in brute force but the more soft forms of coercion.

But as you say ultimately the goal of any political movement is for that activism to be incorporated into the state's prerogatives which are enforced by violence.

 

[erenyeager]

"Noooo stop you are gonna kill us all pwease stop!!!"

*BANG*