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Chapter 2 is less racist, which is good. Here we're exploring how violence and power have a symbiotic relationship, and how both can only be used with consent.
If the agents of violence (police, other forces of order) or the public (either victim or spectator), retracts its consent, then the use of violence to legitimate power is void, and power itself is invalidated.
At least, that's how I understood it.
— Aug 29, 2026 03:20PM
If the agents of violence (police, other forces of order) or the public (either victim or spectator), retracts its consent, then the use of violence to legitimate power is void, and power itself is invalidated.
At least, that's how I understood it.
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"Negro students (...) their interest was only to lower academic standards."
Woah, watch the language. Arendt did a lot of good work on her reflections on evil and totalitarianism, but she does have this bit where she's... very racist.
— Aug 26, 2026 09:43PM
Woah, watch the language. Arendt did a lot of good work on her reflections on evil and totalitarianism, but she does have this bit where she's... very racist.