I would distinguish between confrontation (necessary to stop ongoing harm and domination) and crushing. The latter is inherently violent, the former not necessarily so.
Also, it is not necessarily the case that systems are set up and run by people, at least not depending on how you understand "people." Is an ant colony set up and run by individual ants? Or it an emergent process resulting from a complex, dynamic system in interaction with it's environment?
I believe there is something more-than-human at work in the nature and structure of our dominant systems. By that I don't mean aliens or demons, I mean a form of intelligence and agency that exists in the system itself, an emergent property not reducible to individual actors.
In my model of reality, recognition of this allows us to see what our enemy truly is rather than falling for mirages and camouflages. This enables our actions of resistance and confrontation to still affect other people, because as you say people are components of the system, but we without losing sight that the true rulers are systems, not people.
Losing sight of this makes us vulnerable to a new arrangement, a remix of a system built on separation with different people at the helm.
I would distinguish between confrontation (necessary to stop ongoing harm and domination) and crushing. The latter is inherently violent, the former not necessarily so.
Also, it is not necessarily the case that systems are set up and run by people, at least not depending on how you understand "people." Is an ant colony set up and run by individual ants? Or it an emergent process resulting from a complex, dynamic system in interaction with it's environment?
I believe there is something more-than-human at work in the nature and structure of our dominant systems. By that I don't mean aliens or demons, I mean a form of intelligence and agency that exists in the system itself, an emergent property not reducible to individual actors.
In my model of reality, recognition of this allows us to see what our enemy truly is rather than falling for mirages and camouflages. This enables our actions of resistance and confrontation to still affect other people, because as you say people are components of the system, but we without losing sight that the true rulers are systems, not people.
Losing sight of this makes us vulnerable to a new arrangement, a remix of a system built on separation with different people at the helm.