ABSTRACT
Politics presupposes a conflict of interests generated by an unequal distribution of resources, resolved through relations of power which emerge out of the alliance between coercion and legitimacy. Violence emerges when legitimation tails, either because domination, lacking legitimacy and therefore without consent, is deeply resented by the individual or the collective, or because it is a source of harm. The construction of the national society and community by the nationstate also generates harmful processes for subjects and specific groups, which when they are not accepted lead to political violence. According to a performative definition, violence only refers to behaviour designated as unacceptable by dominant groups within a particular society. Revolutionary action is a combination of state-wide political violence and of an extensive and profound social action arising from the struggle of classes and social groups, or from the rejection of the metropolis.
