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The utility of organized violence depends on the aims of the activists. I can't get what I want by participating in a military organization (the only truly effective social formation for violence) because of my hippie-anarcho-commie ideas, but an authoritarian nationalist certainly could, or maybe even a liberal under some circumstances. Notice, though, how the liberals defending "Western values" got on a slippery slope somewhere between World War 2 and the present.

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