In the Defence of Violence.
Mao Zedong Famously said that " political power grows out from the barrel of a gun", the implication of this statement is quite easy to decipher - Violence is the most powerful force in the world, and it is the sole decisive factor in politics and power struggle. His political philosophy was crude at best and his analyses of violence, a medieval one. Although violence is a much fascinating concept if studied closely and scientifically. **A couple of things before we move forward, all the general arguments here are drawn from George Sorel's impeccable work " Reflection on Violence". I will try to explain these reflections in a cohesive manner but I can't promise anything, the Sorelian imagination of violence differs greatly to what we generally assumes. Also I only understood 10% of the text and I am proud of it.** BACKDROP The year was c.1892 AD, when the intellectual circle of France was thriving and the economic determinism of Marxian orthodoxy was dom...
