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Power and Violence
It is apparently easy to link power with violence since most of people belie
ve that the base of power is supplied by violence, in another words, power i
s built up and maintained by holding the capability, existing or potential,
of utilising violence. However, a fundamental cause that people always forge
t is that the source of power is from the fact of financial control, which,
essentially, is to be used to unveil the relationship between power and viol
ence.
To illustrate this point, the first job is to offer the definitions of the a
bove two in terms of philosophy. Despite of those already existing ones give
n by hundreds of scholars, I would consider them in general, hence POWER is
the ability to control material and spiritual events, which, in itself, is a
type of spiritual production legitimately authorised by a certain group of
people due to natural or societal need--fundamentally economic requirements.
Consequently, in terms of power, VIOLENCE is defined as the most fundamenta
l way to aid the foundation of power and to ensure the continuity of power.
Note that in this essay, the limitation--in terms of power-is retained, othe
rwise the utilisation of violence will fall into misunderstandings.
Given definitions ditto, the built-up of power is from the control of econom
y, individually or by a group. Because the basic characteristics of human be
ings are sex and selfishness, the latter is strongly functional in the proce
ss of pursuing materials. Therefore, in and from the primitive society, e. g
., in the Old Stone Age, distribution becomes unequal accompanying the devel
opment of productivity that produces the inequality in terms of societal ran
ks, which eventually produces the requirement and the fact of the occurrence
of power. Inversely, power, once formed, is biased, and hence to be used to
protect the certain group from offending, i. e., loosing their privilege in
economy. As a whole, this process is spiral and consistent providing the pr
os gained from economy is beyond the cons, and note that violence is always
used in this process, as presented above, to offer all sorts of possible sup
ports for economic improvements.
The interesting issue is why and how power is converted from one to another,
and how functional violence is that is involved in this stage. It is widely
admitted that power held by one group fails to cope with events, given that
the utilisation of power is so abused that economy is under destruction, wh
ich in turn, is resulted because firstly, power used to enhance economy is i
ncorrect and next, conflicts inside the group due to further uneven financia
l distribution are existing. Again, functions of violence are revealed from
the facts that people, inside or outside the group, are able to grasp and ut
ilise violence for the sake of the dissatisfaction with the economic situati
on--put directly, with the inequality of distribution. They are finally succ
essful because the economy has been out of control under the execution of po
wer of the previous group. Therefore, a new group gains power and a new circ
ulation gets started. A point needed to be referred to is that more frequent
ly, internal disassociation is more severe than external.
Spontaneously, from the definition of power, spiritual matters are also cont
rolled, so violence is involved into this term, too. Generally speaking, if
ideology is used in the way to express spiritual matters, violence in this t
erm is, at least, as rigid as that in material term. It shows itself in prop
aganda and control of societal ideology, and the most severe case is so call
ed "unifying thoughts" that, essentially, is the dictatorship in ideology. N
ote that all is served for economic reasons.
In conclusion, power is stemmed from the improvements of economy; violence i
s the most fundamental, valid and useful method of building, maintaining and
destroying power. Furthermore, both of them are necessary till the foundati
on of absolute quality for individuals in a society in terms of economy, whi
ch is the Utopia.
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