While 'violence' should never be excluded categorically as it clearly has it's purpose and some thing cannot be achieved without it, it should always be seen as a means to an end.
Such an end can better be very concrete and achievable |(think breaking people out of a prison, effectively sabotage means of oppression, liberate means achieving revolutionary goals), as any violence randomly attacking the (perceived) enemy with the only goal being to make a point in principle will be depicted as terrorism, and such accusation will be difficult to refute.
In fact such violent action will implicate those, in support of whom such actions are perform, even though they are not invoilved or informed beforehand. This can only be mitigated if whoever performs the violence is effectively capable of offering millitant protection against the represion that will undoubtly follow.
Example: burning a bunch of cop cars as a reaction to a squat eviction will trigger more repression against squatters, Conversely, doing a millitant resquatting of a recently evicted building over and over again will make the city think twice before evicting at the nexty sdquatting action.
Aim well ....
While 'violence' should never be excluded categorically as it clearly has it's purpose and some thing cannot be achieved without it, it should always be seen as a means to an end.
Such an end can better be very concrete and achievable |(think breaking people out of a prison, effectively sabotage means of oppression, liberate means achieving revolutionary goals), as any violence randomly attacking the (perceived) enemy with the only goal being to make a point in principle will be depicted as terrorism, and such accusation will be difficult to refute.
In fact such violent action will implicate those, in support of whom such actions are perform, even though they are not invoilved or informed beforehand. This can only be mitigated if whoever performs the violence is effectively capable of offering millitant protection against the represion that will undoubtly follow.
Example: burning a bunch of cop cars as a reaction to a squat eviction will trigger more repression against squatters, Conversely, doing a millitant resquatting of a recently evicted building over and over again will make the city think twice before evicting at the nexty sdquatting action.