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Reflections on State Power

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All political and social problems are fundamentally solved in the same way: direct action by a mass movement of the indignant populace. If you are morally outraged at unrestrained state violence, then you must become the shackles by which the State is restrained. Get out in the streets with your fellow citizens and demand the Obama administration to cease its policy of extrajudicial assassinations. Otherwise, you might as well pull the trigger yourself on all those innocents that die in every drone strike. Passive obedience to war crimes is merely silent complicity in them.

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I graduated from the University of Chicago with a MA in Social Sciences (concentration in Political Science) and a BA from Rutgers University in Political Science. I study social movements and the tactics that ordinary people use to make (more...)
 

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