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Also, the legitimacy of violence obeys, not the legality of violence, as in the event of war duly approved by institutions such as the parliaments of so-called democratic countries, or the United Nations Security Council, ( since despite all 'there is a legitimate suspicion of the oppression of the biggest towards the smallest,) but to the moral reality of the use of violence, as in classic cases of self-defense. Too often in the world of the 21st century, ruled by an excessive accumulation of power of entities in a position of strength, from a military, cultural and economic point of view, the right to exercise force is unilateral, because of the virtual inexistence of the forces able to oppose the injunctions of the capitalist bloc.
The monopoly of force of the so-called international community has made the atrocities of Western armies in theaters of operations around the world unpopular, in missions that have sown chaos in the populations of several countries. In the West, maliciously, the pretention to ignore that the wars started in third world countries, to drive out the political class in power, or to fight terrorism, were in fact wars against the peoples living in these territories, has often been pushed to the extreme. Yet, since the beginning of human history, war has always been against the people who endured it in their territory; whatever the reasons given.
What is legal is not always legitimate; because the law of the strongest, even when entering into the legal framework, continues to despoil the weakest, who can only rebel and use the tools of violence, not always to destroy the established order, but often to make people heard their voice, and influence the legal framework to their advantage.
State terrorism sometimes finds, as a logical response, the violence of the masses who feel despoiled. The use of violence is based on the belief that there is really no other way, to get your expectations taken into account or, more radically, to impose your solutions.
Even the use of public force implies, as Hannah Arendt noted, a failure of political power to function within its normative framework. The state, in general, uses violence only when there is a problem, which it has sometimes created itself, by unfair social policies, or wars of domination over time, such as slavery or colonization. Also, in France for example, the injustices of the wars of colonization as in Algeria or in sub-Saharan Africa, were perpetuated on French territory by the ostracization of several generations of immigrants from colonized countries. In a logic of infinite war perpetuating prestige.
Women demonstrating in New York
Lerone Pieters