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When Is Violence Justified in Response to Totalitarianism?

The answer is tougher than it seems…

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Christopher Cook
Jan 04, 2024
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In response to yesterday’s post (When Totalitarianism Comes, Will You Do the Right Thing?), Max Borders of Underthrow posed the following question:

When is it appropriate to use counter-violence? Or, is counter-violence ever the right thing?

It is an essential question.

Peace lies at the very core of our philosophy. The peace of the nonaggression principle. The peac…

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