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yeah yeah yeah, anyone who's looked at this knows about this tension you're referring to. Does conflict and the cycle of violence lead to more of the same? To some extent that is demonstrably true but don't you think it's odd that you're arguing in an anarchist space for the merits of the social peace? The basic thesis would be conflict bad because it strengthens the enemy ... there's a LOT of problems with that thesis before you even examine any data to prove or disprove it: it's fundamentally naive about the inevitability of conflict in deteriorating social-economic conditions, which no reasonable person can dispute.

I gotta tell ya, if you're still making that argument in good faith ... at this stage of 2020, aren't you worried how closely you resemble the historical examples of the last time the forces of reaction gathered major strength and a whole host of folks kept insisting that it wasn't that big of a deal and if you just ignored the reactionaries, they'd fizzle out and vanish?

At what point does this argument get shamed out of the room? Does that ever happen? Hmmmm