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Reflections on Gewalt

Reflections on Gewalt © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156920609X399227 Historical Materialism 17 (2009) 99–125 brill.nl/hima Violence A: al- ʿ unf, al-quwwa. – G: Gewalt. – F: vio- lence, pouvoir. – R: nasilie, vlast’. – S: violen- cia, poder. – C: Th e paradox of Marxism’s relationship to vio- lence is that, although Marxism has made a decisive contribution to understanding ‘the role of violence in history’ – more precisely, to understanding the link between forms of domination and exploitation (primarily capi- talism) and the structural modalities of social violence, and the necessity of class struggles and revolutionary processes – and has thereby contributed to defi ning the conditions and stakes of modern politics, it has nonetheless been fundamentally incapable of thinking (and thus confronting) the tragic connection that associates politics with violence from the inside, in a unity of opposites that is itself supremely ‘violent’. Th is connection has come to light in diff erent periods in, for example, the work of historians and theorists like Th u- cydides , Machiavelli or Max Weber , in a way that it has not in Marxism. Th ere are several reasons for this. One is the absolute privilege that Marxist theory http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Reflections on Gewalt

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© 2009 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1465-4466
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10.1163/156920609X399227
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/156920609X399227 Historical Materialism 17 (2009) 99–125 brill.nl/hima Violence A: al- ʿ unf, al-quwwa. – G: Gewalt. – F: vio- lence, pouvoir. – R: nasilie, vlast’. – S: violen- cia, poder. – C: Th e paradox of Marxism’s relationship to vio- lence is that, although Marxism has made a decisive contribution to understanding ‘the role of violence in history’ – more precisely, to understanding the link between forms of domination and exploitation (primarily capi- talism) and the structural modalities of social violence, and the necessity of class struggles and revolutionary processes – and has thereby contributed to defi ning the conditions and stakes of modern politics, it has nonetheless been fundamentally incapable of thinking (and thus confronting) the tragic connection that associates politics with violence from the inside, in a unity of opposites that is itself supremely ‘violent’. Th is connection has come to light in diff erent periods in, for example, the work of historians and theorists like Th u- cydides , Machiavelli or Max Weber , in a way that it has not in Marxism. Th ere are several reasons for this. One is the absolute privilege that Marxist theory

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