Political Solidarity and Violent Resistance

Journal of Social Philosophy 38 (1):38-52 (2007)
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This article examines the particular moral obligations of solidarity focusing on the solidary commitment against injustice or oppression. I argue that political solidarity entails three relationships—to other participants in action, to a cause or goal, and to those outside the unity of political solidarity. These relationships inform certain obligations. Activism is one of those obligations and I argue that violent activism is incompatible with the other relations and duties of solidarity. Activists may find themselves confronted with a difficult choice between respecting the relationships of political solidarity or employing physical violence in resistant self-defense against oppressive practices.

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Equality, solidarity, and Rawls' maximin.Lawrence Crocker - 1977 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 6 (3):262-266.

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