Daniel Bensaïd (2009): A strategically regulated violence
3 June 2026‘Present-day society, which breeds hostility between the individual man and everyone else, thus produces a social war of all against all which inevitably in individual cases, notably among uneducated people, assumes a brutal, barbarously violent form – that of crime.’
– Friedrich Engels, ‘Speeches in Elberfeld, 1845’i
‘The foundation of all states occurs in a situation that we can thus call revolutionary. It inaugurates a new law, it always does so in violence.’