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We on the left represent the oppressed, and all supposedly “violent” acts by the oppressed are, by definition, forms of self-defence. If a bigot indulges in hate speech — for instance, by suggesting that there are only two sexes or that women with testicles should be excluded from sororities, convents and harems — this amounts to a form of verbal genocide that must be resisted.
Let’s put this simply. To speak of “violence” in the context of liberatory struggle is to reinscribe the epistemic grammar of control, for “violence” when enacted by the subjugated is in fact the rupture of the normative order that itself is constituted by colonial expropriation, racial capitalism and the cisheteropatriarchal disciplining of bodies.
What some call “left-wing violence”, therefore, is more properly understood as a praxis of redemptive kinetics: a loving counter-force that reorientates the subject away from domination and towards the nexus of justice.
And if you don’t agree, that just proves that you’re a Nazi who deserves to be punched.