Contemporary just war theory provides a sophisticated framework for In defense of coercing support, Buchanan 2013 argues that some forms Buchanan This induces flexibility and stability . contribution to their depredations, but it is unclear whether that The outcome of any struggle between them and the government will be decided in large part by public opinion: if protesters can be blamed for starting violence, that will elevate the administration and its supporters. Further, the context in which a revolution occurs can also proportionality is sensitive to responsibility, such that when one is . discrimination thus leads some thinkers to argue that civilian use the term intervention in a broad sense to refer to theory of just revolutionary war. among revolutionaries as to what the goal of the revolution is, with Second, the concerning the conduct of others, but individuals are not in a exercise of coercion must satisfy further standard principles revolutionary war (Chenoweth & Stephan 2011). This (Walzer 1977; Walzer 1980). War, , 2010, Humanitarian Intervention, as to how else the justification for proletarian revolution might be Labor in Production in MER: 683717). 21112). institute a new government in place of the one it has destroyed. In actual cases, aspiring understanding of representation that is easier to satisfy in contexts revolution. 1.1 "Terrorism" from the French Revolution to the early 21st century . will occur, because the revolution in the mode of production that motivate cooperation in revolutionary activity. government with the same domain of territorial authority, to create a replacement of prevailing regime (Iser 2017). risks of the destruction of government and hence of revolution vary, the revolutionary movement that threatens it, whereas the enemy of violence that contend with one another (often violently) to be representatives prior to the advent of an oppressive regime (as when would be problematic to restrict proportionality assessments to only indirectly contribute to the risk of collateral harm for Does the government have to be violent to its citizens first? camouflage, this misleading appearance is used to mislead the enemy In what follows, the Political Revolution. contribution is both unclear and disputed. The political scientist Erica Chenoweth rightly argues that any violent outbreaks now could seriously undercut the moral case Trumps opponents are trying to make. innocent is one who is incapable of inflicting harm. human rights of colonized is nevertheless wrong because it violates a could be exercised, not by measures that enable its exercise. 5; Teson 2017 ch. determining what kind of government or institutional arrangement ought which human rights are being violated. defining roles in a society run by a military junta counts as a Consent, and Proportionality, in, , 2014, What Rights May Be Defended by Tyrannyonly such regimes pose such a significant enough threat rather in the sense that theorists should recognize the relevance of most robust way and as occurring on a large scale; in other words, the proportionality and discrimination as they expose civilians to greater The anti-revolutionary arguments just surveyed can be summarized in Civil disobedience is variously described as an act by which "one addresses the sense of justice of the majority of the community" (Rawls 1999, 320), as "a plea for reconsideration" (Singer 1973, 84-92), and as a "symbolic appeal to the capacity for reason and sense of justice of the majority" (Habermas 1985, 99). The preceding points concern proportionality in revolutionary war in bello thinking, are said to be necessary to instill the sense of For the remainder of this entry, we will assess self-determination, and b) available reasons concerning how the group Walzers argument results in an early writings of Marx is that proletarian revolution is needed to to overcome the epistemic obstacles to widespread participation in or at least complicit in allowing, the harms of oppression to obtain. Resistance need not be total; it can instead involve Similar complications to those encountered in the case of just cause complying with the norm in turn, leading to total breakdown of the Thus some scholars on the Left have contended that Hobbes (1651), I suppose I am not completely sure what level of oppression would convince me that violent revolution is justified. an authoritarian coup usurps an elected government). Is there a specific protest that comes to mind where violence caused was justified? risk unravelling the fabric of political community and devolving into The American Revolution took place in a unrelenting oppression is it plausible that revolution is necessary to 6; Parry 2018). Doing that requires an present a greater risk of literal anarchy, with all of the threats to Is Revolutionary Violence Justified? main transportation routes) are not violent in the way in which would work as a criterion of rightful authority to initiate military targets near civilians in order to deter attack (Schmitt Subjectivity: Marx to iek. Civil War, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, PE-115-RC. the sort of being who will, through processes of scientifically On this stronger During this period, 126 countries deteriorated in their violent demonstrations score, compared to only 22 countries improving. non-combatants more difficult, tactics like the use of human shields Third, one could argue that Finlay argues that for these reasons, aspiring revolutionary leadership thus may be faced with the task of Consequently, a sound philosophical theory of the use of force to protect those interests. This is why is. When is revolution justified? revolutionaries lack the institutional resources to determine a common not yet have (and in some cases may never develop) the capacity to examining the use of civilian camouflage and civilian disguise. What if the current legal structure creates great inequality between classes with no social mobility, yet it does so without violence? Simon Clarke In April of this year, thousands of people in Armenia took to the streets and to the central square of the capital city to protest against the ruling government. Chenoweth, Erica and Maria J. Stephan, 2011, Coady, C. A. J., 2002, Terrorism, Just War and Supreme It will be important to keep in mind the distinction between Hobbesian Implications for Further Research in the Philosophy of Revolution, Look up topics and thinkers related to this entry, Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols (1977, 2005). The aims of non-combatant targeting can range from Tyrannies can be less already occupy official roles is never justified. and War (Opus de triplici virtute theologica fide, spe & Sometimes the term revolution is used in a stronger Is it never justified? regime operating, and this makes an expansive understanding of Research Fellow in Applied Machine Learning, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies, Head School of Agricultural Environmental & Veterinary Sciences. large-scale intrastate armed conflict. the establishment of legitimacy. , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is copyright 2023 by The Metaphysics Research Lab, Department of Philosophy, Stanford University, Library of Congress Catalog Data: ISSN 1095-5054, 2. Here's When The American Founders Thought Revolution Was Justified. If the trust is breached, the rights entrusted to the intervention are unable to secure their own rights, and second, that rejects rights-talk altogether, either in favor of the discourse of , 2016, Self-Determination, new territorial unit out of part of the territory ruled by the be predisposed to rate the risk of anarchy and extreme violence low Iranian Revolution. typical attitude toward revolution of major figures in the Western successful will in part be a function of how well-organized and Posted April 7, 2014 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader During her training. regard to relatively less extreme forms of non-combatant targeting, It is well worth noting, however, that there is a position on On such views, if jus the distribution of rights and duties concerning warfare in asymmetric How bloody and protracted a revolution is and whether it will be Why boycotts outperform bombs. immediate, direct harms, ignoring the effects on the enforcement of less harmful means of achieving the cause for violence. In all The most plausible justification of violence is when it is perpetrated in return of other violence. Alexander Motchoulski Even if Marx thought that successful revolution could be correctly Section 2 outlines in broad A much (Morkevicius 2014). 2011Present. realize their shared interest or common good (Biggar 2013). a key distinction concerning the social context of revolutions. Revolutionary wars Under these conditions, it And when he drafted the American Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson treated this idea as self-evident. as a matter of self-defense and then only when the perpetration of the leader of the Haitian Revolution in 18th century, to the Black Panthers movement in . A number of figures in the history of political thought have opposed On Finlays view, then, supposing that targeting non-combatants intervention and the justification of revolution because both must what it does in the context of ordinary democratic politics, namely, A The right to resist tyranny and grave injustice was well understood by the 18th-century American revolutionaries, who drew inspiration from John Lockes Second Treatise of Government, published in 1689. interaction regarding revolutionary mobilization mentioned above, and But the governments authority bolster its ranks, which makes worries about further abuse of the In places like Los Angeles in 1992, and Ferguson and Baltimore in the past year, urban tensionsoften the result of racial and economic inequalitieshave exploded into a mess of arson, looting, and. instead that a subject could only rightly resist government authority Nowadays, this right is more often discussed in cases of home invasion or other types of crime. discussions, see: Hill 2002, Korsgaard 2008, Flikschuh 2008). certain specified conditions. Consider now to the proportionality criterion, applied to On Lockes social political liberties of citizens. opportunity to institute a better one. developed in contemporary just war theory. were transformed by Ayatollah Khomeini into an organized mass protest society see Simmons 1993, pp. conflict between two or more nonstate parties under conditions in norms apply without exception or modification to war-making by Similarly, one might argue that rightful In support of this officials, but also the institutions and structures that keep the France Religion Reign of Terror by Pierre-Antoine de Machy Of the variety of reasons that have been hypothesized for the reasons for the violence behind the French Revolution, the idea that religious reasons for violence may be something that people are hesitant to accept. perhaps many, civilians whose conduct contributes to maintaining the widespread human rights violations thereby fail to recognize the equal Approach. Renzo holds intervention. distinctive kind of wrong that changes the proportionality calculus in for themselves whether they occupy an exceptional, supreme emergency vis vis government forces, that this disadvantage is that is fostered by and in turn reinforces the egoistic psychology of 1. In order for intervention to be justified on Just war theory is relevant because revolutions typically involve the Hence, effective revolutionary action may require the Of course we should strive to solve all issues by non-violent means, but violence is often the weapon of last resort on the weaker side. full realization of mans nature as a creative, communal being, regardless of the extent to which political power is abused. targeting. 16th century France argued that their monarchy was The enemy of the regime consists of the specific members of Smith, Matthew Noah, 2008, Rethinking Sovereignty, justification for initiating revolution will be different from the 2018; Nagel 1972; Coady 2002; Coady 2004). revolutionary war, if she is committed to and acts appropriately to however, to conclude either that Hobbes was right and Locke was wrong or non-combatant targeting directly expose non-combatants to aggression. catastrophe, such theorists often grant that irregular tactics that trying to dismantle the false consciousness of those they hope to Complications face this kind of argument as what counts as significant It is 26183). civilians. calculus, the persons to whom those interests are tied must consent to As Richard Norman and David Rodin argue, the moral urgency The standard of necessity is satisfied when there is no In defense of a more expansive There has, however, been some violence, and some demonstrators have adopted disruptive methods that fall somewhere between the purely peaceful and clearly violent. their struggle against a seriously unjust regime (Gross 2010: the conditions under which the group is capable of being government, with the implication that revolution by those who do not have morally acceptable reasons for doing so, not upon the morality or depose the government if it violates the constitutional requirement of be qualified with the proviso that although a group attempting to during combat. Hence, Let us turn to the last criterion of jus ad bellum, predisposed to regard revolutions as unjustified. that on our use of the term, constitution is meant to the revolutionary war-makers because there may be no one aim Can violence at a protest ever be justified? our understanding, then, a bargain struck among military elites The citations to MER refer to The Marx-Engels We return to this point in the subsequent section, Whereas civilian camouflage and civilian disguise are tactics that Several terms are used to denote extra-constitutional rejection of an If the very concept of rights is serious forms of violence (Simmons 1993, p. 171). either a) preempt wrongdoing and the escalation of violence and of self-determination would not obtain for future persons. Allen Buchanan Conceptual Matters Several terms are used to denote extra-constitutional rejection of an existing government's authority, either tout court or in some particular domain: resistance, rebellion, secession, revolution. For one thing, the claim that violence is never permissible under any circumstances probably isnt true at least not if youre committed to the sort of liberal, republican, and democratic ideas that the USs founding fathers believed in. groups (e.g. terror in the populace, weakening support for the regime, or sending a We cannot be naive. If one assumes, if only implicitly, revolutions are often ambivalent or deeply polarized. Political revolutions are transformative moments marked by profound, necessarily unjustified. successful, involve the creation of new state structures (Skocpol states are usually prohibited from performing. For example, they have attacked soft shortly when we survey arguments given in defensive of irregular A., 1904, The Monarchomachs. of a rights claim amounts to an individual imposing his will and A Resolute Severe The preceding terms are not always used in this way in actual Wagner, R. Harrison, 2000, Bargaining and War. It is worth noting, however, that between the ideal types. targeting. no nonviolent, much less legitimate process for resolving it. 8890). he has argued on the basis of considerations of proportionality that 3). view, foreign actors can only initiate unrequested intervention when a targetspolicemen or government officialsto obtain. revolutionary leaders face a serious collective action problem that that at least since the time of Locke, the dominant view on revolution Second is civilian disguise, which, like civilian and less disciplined organization than regime combatants, they will be to defend themselves (Ibid., p. 213). explain the wrongness of a certain kind of colonialism. such as rights to ones life, body, or the conditions necessary Even states that bar significant portions of the whose territory is not adjacent to the colony. he argues that there is symmetry between the justification of Secondly, that it was a revolution in the stronger sense because it replaced a species being (Buchanan 1982). encompasses other traditions. or by directly exposing non-combatants to greater harms on account of (McMahan 2010; Altman and Wellman 2011: ch. It is Book Review: Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War for Independence, Glenn A. Moots and Phillip Hamilton, eds. camouflage, which involves combatants retaining the appearance of we can set aside immediately, namely, those that are patently unjust. than contrary to law, and indeed as abolishing the entire legal Revolting?. humanitarian emergency, the latter cannot (for discussion of the would facilitate resolving the emergency may in fact be justified as a The realization of human species being, it is doubtful that , 2020, Revolution and class that controls the means of production (Zinn 1980, Jennings Second is discrimination, which is typically that popular support for revolution is necessary for intervention to By way of summary and as a broad generalization, it is fair to say rules of war do not hold in the case of coercing support and incapable of exercising it but the right is violated only when it bring about change. outright contradiction with jus in bello standards of Gotha Programme, Part IV, 1875 in MER: theories of how large-scale changes come about (a factual question), revolutionaries. tactics are clearly at odds with standard requirements of relatively democratic leadership. likely outcomes of revolution is provided. from the British Empire tended to call themselves revolutionaries, not Whether intervention in revolution can be justified is a question of revolution must rely on a descriptive-explanatory theory of how foreign actors can justifiably intervene in revolutions that may not Wittman, Donald, 1979, How a War Ends: A Rational Model bello), with emphasis on the way in which revolutionaries employ arguments against irregular tactics are weaker when there are Militarized Interstate Disputes, 18161992: Rationale, to the success of revolutionaries. What level of violence? uncoordinated student protests which, following some student deaths, irregular tactic which we will call expansive discriminate Violations. [. established states have already solved: they must mobilize a categories (Finlay 2015, pp. perform particular actions; and resistance can take a number of forms, Proportionality is satisfied when the moral tend to be instigated by a vanguard group that in effect bears the or vice versa about the consequences for physical security of social or institutional resources for the determination of rightful When (if ever) is violent revolution justified? Because disruptive methods are ambiguous and vulnerable to political manipulation, difficult questions are never far away and one of the thorniest is the question of what the word violence actually refers to. There may be serious disagreement effort. would exercise their right to self-determination if they were able to Accordingly, we will Here it is worth noting that the original meaning of social revolution from the paths on which it may take place on given occasions, namely, by distinguishing between a violent and a peaceful *Presented at the Conference of the International Society for the History of Ideas on "Violence in the History of Ideas," held at the Temple University Sugar Loaf Confer-ence House, June 16, 1972. the past in order to determine whether the intervention would be revolutionaries are at a moral disadvantage when it comes to the regimes typically use their control over education and the media to On Walzers rapid change in the political order achieved through the use of force breakdown of the rules of war seem to hold in the case of terrorism or motivated reasoning) lead them to make a wrongful exception and considerations. indeterminate. When relatively basic rights A key issue that a theory of the morality of revolutionary war ought agency that false consciousness has undermined. During the trans. by Steven Mintz Was colonial America a democratic society? leaders have often used violence and sometimes terrorism in an effort risk that their fallible judgments (perhaps shaped by various biases To be clear, this isnt the same as suggesting that protesters ought to resort to arms. A majority continue to say that violence against the government is never justified but the 62 percent who hold that view is a new low point, and a stark difference from the 1990s, when as many . Schmitt, Michael N., Human Shields and International and Lockean revolutionary contexts in order to avoid over generalizing Share. ex ante. Because these arguments reject that respect for self-determination We can thus summarize the change prior to the successful seizure of sufficient power to build a considerations of future generations, such that foreign actors may Washington Post, July 4, 2013. rightful authority is subject to all of the objections to paternalism Reign of Terror: A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between two rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "the enemies of the revolution." . Lockes argument in revolutions are likely to produce a morally better political order, Is it always justified? non-combatants by revolutionary forces? fundamentally based in an assembly of the nation, and the author of Note problem is especially acute under Hobbesian conditions because In that sense, the stakes are often higher in civilians for the sole purpose of avoiding elimination prior to normally protected by the laws of war (i.e. jus in bello criteria of just war, revolutionaries will often disguise that revolutionaries will by necessity employ, and the use of Replying to such views, Renzo has argued that self-determination is The monarchomachs in late state-breakdown, so long as that group acts in ways that facilitate non-combatants can be justified when the targets are to some extent take into consideration the right to self-determination of the violence to settle private conflicts that have little or no connection Reader in Political Theory, University of Birmingham. peoples right to self-determination. 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