POL 3162 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Guerrilla Warfare, David Easton, Class Conflict
15 Apr 2016
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In latin america, there is social and criminal violence why does it become political violence (terrorism, guerillas, etc. ) Circulation of money (immigrants 6630 their original countries) The different face of violence in 21st century. Politics vs conflicts prof agrees to hannah arendt"s perspective. Violence is a way a society deals with conflicts (as a result) Class struggle unions, place to workers. Now we have society in which the industrial sector is weaker the workers don"t know how to handle the situation. Job loss, unemployment leads to feeling of insecurity (or expendability, uselessness, etc. ) Politics in la have been shaped by the cold war. Two superpowers (soviet reunion vs usa) fighting for power. Now we have civil wars that are changed in their nature they"re more identity based. Politics is the authoritative allocation of values for a society david easton (canadian) Society has limited valued resources (missing two points) Political violence: the use of physical force with a political objective.
