POLITICAL VIOLENCE
VOL. 2, NO. 6, PGS. 1–7

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Why Do Regimes Resort to Political Violence?
A conversation with Paul Hollander

This interview was conducted by Javier Toro.

Paul Hollander is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. His most recent book is From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship.

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What is political violence? What forms can it take?

I have written a great deal about political violence in connection with political systems, but I had never tried to come up with a definition of political violence. I thought it was fairly obvious. It is violence that has political roots, motives or justifications. You know what violence is. Then [...]

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@daVinci1412
07/11/2018
Desde mi punto de vista, la violencia forma parte de la naturaleza animal: la muerte de un animal por otro de su misma o diferente especie, por mil razones asociadas a la sobrevivencia, llámese hambre, sobrevivencia del más apto, poder, etc. El proceso civilizatorio en Homo sapiens tiene como fin precisamente ir sustituyendo la violencia natural, la barbarie, por la convivencia, en un equilibrio delicado. Y los regímenes totalitarios o similares tienden precisamente a echar para atrás el proceso de formación en la civilidad y ciudadanía, para retrotraernos a los instintos básicos más primitivos.

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