On the necessity and possibility of violence in the conceptualization of civil disobedience
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civil desobedience, violence, political participation, fidelity to lawCopyright (c) 2024 Revista Jurídica Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Abstract
Civil disobedience is one of the most drastic and significant forms of political participation that a social movement can resort to in order to assert its claims to justice in the public arena. However, classical conceptualizations of civil disobedience, insofar as they consider the use of violence to be radically incompatible with this form of protest, have limited the scope of this phenomenon exclusively to the context of Western democracies. Thus, this paper seeks to analyze the relationship between civil disobedience and violence, trying to determine in what contexts and under what circumstances the use of violence by the disobedient is justified, arguing that its justification depends on the sense of justice of the majority and the type of violence perceived as acceptable in a given society. It also discusses the use of violence by political authority, examining the role of punishment and repression in determining how civil disobedience, as a form of political participation, must show fidelity to the law.
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