ABSTRACT
In Bart de Ligt's opinion, the best way to oppose Franco's troops would have been to let them occupy the territory and then organise a vast movement of non-collaboration and boycotts against his government. The Conquest of Violence opens with the affirmation that contemporary society and politics were imbued with violence to such an extent that it had practically become a shared religion. Violence and warfare, which are characteristic conditions of the imperialist world, do not go with the liberation of the individual and of society, which is the historic mission of the exploited classes. The social revolution means nothing if it is not a battle for humanity against all that is inhuman and unworthy of man. To further support his argument against the effectiveness of revolutionary violence, de Ligt pointed to the outcome of the Russian Revolution and discussed the experience of the Spanish Civil War, which was in progress at the time he was writing.
