(Photo: The Walrus) The task of a critique of violence can be defined as the exposure of their relationship with law and justice. For an efficient cause violence becomes, in the true sense of the word only when it affects moral relations.Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence (1922)
As Benjamin says, violence is something that is imposed on the media, but not in end, the chaos is not the intention of the protesters, but the way to gain notoriety in the absence of other means.
As we know, the state has the monopoly of legal violence. As such, limited to certain rules and laws limiting the state violence becomes an outright repression. So far, so clear.
But the violence are not all equal. Is not the same shoot a dove with a shotgun to hit your wife, both actions as reprehensible. Just as I've seen this week, there is a confusion of the limits of violence and law, between law enforcement and the insurgency.
Nobody could seem to know how to handle this situation without first point finger at those who are on the sidewalk in front. The partial result (because this game does not end gentlemen) is 5 killed in unclear circumstances, and over 200 arrests.
But the most significant sign of political violence gives the government lambasting the opposition, accusing it of being part of the instigators of the strike . It also said there "foreign hands" and "walkers" behind it. A clear example of Orwellian violence: dehumanize the enemy, cast it and prefer a frontal assault rather than see that this is the case.
Undoubtedly, the organizers of the strike was the subject are out of hand. As stated Fernando Vivas , these are the moments in which to find new ways of showing displeasure, because blocking roads is an invitation to an escalation of violence. That's where the line appears thinner than the whole thing. At what point the government exercises its power to dissolve any disorders and when the government becomes repressive and begins to attack over the population.
Another important aspect is the fact that it had been announced, ergo, the government knew that this strike will come to all: There exists another kind of violence: Refusing to dialogue, to minimize the ability of protest from farmers, in addition to refusing to accept that a situation de riesgo. Esto creó un clima en donde la violencia brotó de forma natural, como medio para expresar un rechazo del gobierno central.
Como diría Benjamín, la violencia es aún más condenable cuando en los conflictos sociales tienen una solución próxima y razonable, como sucedió con la Ley del Tercio. Pero la violencia como herramienta está fundamentado en la naturaleza como estado; lo que no está por ningún lugar aceptado es que exista impunidad para ejercer una fuerza que vaya encontra de una solución, en contra de los fines; una violencia que sólo logre general que la situación escale geométricamente, como sucedió esta semana.
Ahí entra el DL 982, que ininputable allows the use of weapons by law enforcement, is a typical example of an administrative violence out of control: 5 dead is an example of the ineffectiveness of a state to apply cold packs to a situation that it could be arranged days earlier. But as the law allows the police shoot at close range against the population, does not absolve the fact that they should punish the makers of the matter. In addition there is a precedent: protests in Arequipa, 2001 . If the government wants to continue that wave, see rule should be for everyone. Or not?
Finally, there are two elements to this whole issue accesitarios: The first is the racism in politics, lives under the facade of centralization; This constant pressure caused by the effort of including small farmers within a framework of national agriculture led to this strike. The second is that the state should be more concerned with defending the interests of the people, instead of looking for that big move to the big capital stocks.
Such actions only make the violence escalate to levels we've seen this week.
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