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If organizers of a GOVERNMENT

If organizers of a GOVERNMENT call for the POPULATION OF A TERRITORY to be non-violent do CITIZENS have a responsibility to follow LAW AND ORDER?

This is a genuine question, not a rhetorical one. Anarchists reject authoritarianism. Is it authoritarian to bring violence into a non-violent space WHICH THE STATE HAS CLAIMED AS ITS OWN? Thanks for sharing your thoughts

There's no such thing as a "non-violent space", specially under a government that murders people .

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence...

tl;dr: non-violence is a spook (ideology) which only serves to pacify revolt and police "movements", aiding counterinsurgency
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So called "public space" is "public" and when shit goes down many people may want to manifest themselves in it in different ways. One group cannot claim it all for itself and determine the rules for everyone who goes through it, except by coercion/force. For there to be freedom of movement, freedom of expression, freedom of association and freedom to congregate (and many of the limited senses of freedom that are in some truncated sense ostensibly defended by USA constitution and Human Rights) there is the implication that there may be a group carrying out one activity in a place in a particular manner, a various other groups and individuals who do so simultaneously, in another manner. So even under liberal pretensions, the idea of a group being the "owners of an even and a public space" just because the made a call and therefore "organized the event, is flimsy rhetoric on its own terms.

Under anarchist pretenses, you can say that protests are a type of representative action, not the type of direct action anarchists would favor. As anti-authoritarians their concern would certainly not be to obstruct a protest, nor to stop people to do as they felt, and they certainly would not tolerate being obstructed to do as they felt themselves. An anarchist is not a police of a new order (contrary to "red"conceptions) they don't want or much less have to defend the terms of protesting envisioned by anyone. They will do their own thing regardless, whether it coincides or not in the space-time of others' protests, or liberal parades, or elections. Moreover, they will avoid, to the degree that they can, to aid states, and all other institutions, in their reproduction and projection of power. They will evade and attack as they see fit and feasible.

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