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26 | Wake Up and Choose Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin w/ Dr. Ashley Bohrer

What's Left of Philosophy

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Is There Going to Be Divine Violence in the Revolutionary General Strikeso?

Benmin: The liberal state is committed to violence in several ways. He says there's not anything we can do within the as it is that is going to liberate us, redeem us and save us. cass: I feel like a lot of times he makes this distinction between kind of what he calls mythic violence and divine violence. We oppose law making and and law preserving violence as like bad, riht, as the destruptive rupture.

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