Violent Politics: Strategies of Internal Conflict by Michael Addison (auth.)

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Neither side can afford to alienate its supporters, and both may find it unwise to defy international opinion. So there is a tendency for the boundaries to converge, and for the ground between them to narrow, although it will never disappear. Action of one kind is then held to justify action of another kind; strong action, strong reaction; mild action, mild response; new measure, new countermeasure. Both sides are trapped in these unwritten rules. So stasis in violent politics is not hugely different from stasis in conventional politics; the problems may simply be too difficult to solve, and the intervention of violent politics, though it certainly gets attention, may well make them even more difficult to resolve.

Postmodernism and moral relativism have nothing to contribute to conventional politics, since they deny the legitimacy of its modes: persuasion, shame and reward. They have a lot to contribute to violent politics, because they enhance the legitimacy of its modes: prevention, fear and force; an effect unlikely to be intended by their advocates, but nonetheless unavoidable. Psychological correctness also contributes more to violent politics than to the conventional kind. Its belief that human culture simply 38 Violent Politics writes on a biological slate blank except for five senses plus a few basic drives such as hunger, thirst, aggression, fear and sex leads, for example, to the Seville Statement on Violence, later adopted by UNESCO and several scientific organisations: It is scientifically incorrect to say that we have inherited a tendency to make war from our animal ancestors.

They choose violence when they cannot sell their ideas through words because conventional politicians and their electorates will not buy them. The propaganda of the deed then becomes as important as the propaganda of the word. Both are reflected by the media. Violent politics and the media Acts of violent politics are literally meaningless without an explanation of why they have been done. Once a campaign has become established, of course, acts take on a conventional meaning of their own; people interpret them in the same way as they did the last atrocity.

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