Critique Of Political Violence

Since the middle and last the Sixties of the twentieth century, along withthe spring up of world-wide campaign of political violence, scholars havebeen stimulated to study the essence, causes, process and consequence ofpolitical violence, and there have emerged all sorts of theories up to today.Political violence means the organized physical force, which is directedagainst the existing relationship between the ruler and the ruled by politicalactors with particular political aims, and which has had significant influence.From the perspective of three dimensions of man, state and internationalsystem, political violence was constructed not only along from individual tostate to international system by the social dimension of political violence, butalso from international system to state to man with the synthesized effect. Ithas its root in the profound and complex factors of psychology, society,history, and culture. It is characteristic of such as politics, anti-systemorganization and violence. From the point of view of typology, the distinctionbetween civil political violence and international political violence lies in thedifference between civil political structure and international political structure.From the point of view of ethic, political violence is always connected withthe claims of legitimacy and justification. Political violence will be based onthe understanding of the conception of "enemy", and in turn promotes theunderstanding. Political violence will drive the international system towardsan ultimate state, and it will also come to a close along with the dying-out ofthe relationship between the ruler and the ruled.The history of human beings is both a history of political violence and ahistory of critique of political violence. The critique of political violenceconcerns both the significance of political violence and the destiny of humanbeings. Violence becomes history, and history is full of violence. Only whenwe take seriously with the historically displayed violence, can we transcendthe history of violence.