ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the call to violence and the associated characterization of the society as ideology, thereby assuming that the ideas are to be interpreted as expressing the needs and desires of those who proclaim them, rather than as offering an analysis of the objective structure of the plural society and its potentiality for peaceful change. The movement towards violence is likely to generate appropriate ideologies; and to examines some of the elements and functions of an ideology of violence for subordinate groups in a plural society. It discusses the assumption that men have to be forced from positions of dominance, that they will not voluntarily relinquish or share the power they have once enjoyed. If the goal is a polarized society, then violence would seem to be an efficient means to that end. It easily multiplies in a plural society, where the intermingling of peoples affords lavish occasion for violence.
