do you understand what civil disobedience means?
Time for a remedial.
Violence is the contribution that socialists and the Left in general has given to political discourse.
Georges Sorel is the 'father of violent socialism.:
1. Georges Eugène Sorel (2 November 1847 in Cherbourg 29 August 1922 in Boulogne-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher and theorist of
revolutionary syndicalism. His notion of the power of myth in people's lives
inspired Marxists and Fascists, it is, together with his defense of violence, the contribution for which he is most often remembered.
Georges Sorel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. Sometimes incomprehensible spirit behind the French "syndicalist" movement that sparked in 1895 in an attempt to recapture the initiative away from reformist state
socialists and bring the workers' movement back to its roots in the revolutionary anarcho-socialism of Proudhon and Bakunin that had so shaken the world back in the 1840s and 1850s.
Although he
claimed himself to be a Marxian, Sorel held a deep suspicion for "armchair socialists", particularly those who mumbled about the inevitability of
"progress". Instead,
Sorel advocated massive general strikes and worker action -- not for the small concessions from employers those might bring, but rather as a way of continuously
disrupting the capitalism industrial machine and thus eventually achieving worker control of means of production. In his most famous work (1908), Sorel emphasized the violent and irrational motivations of social and economic conduct (echoing Pareto in many ways). His identification of the need for a deliberately-conceived "myth" to sway crowds into concerted action was put to use by the Fascist and Communist movements of the 1920s and after.
http://homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/sorel.htm
3. In his best-known work,
Reflections on Violence (1908, tr. 1912), which became the basic text of syndicalism, Sorel expounded
his theory of "violence" as the creative power of the proletariat that could overcome "force," the coercive economic power of the bourgeoisie. He supported belief in myths about future social developments, arguing that such belief
promoted social progress. http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Georges_Sorel.aspx
This has always been the path of the Left.
