Hannah Arendt · Politics
Against the long tradition that equates power with force, Arendt argues that power and violence are not the same thing but opposites - power is what arises when people act together, while violence is the instrument of those who have lost it.
You learned Arendt’s distinction between power (acting in concert, springing up among people) and violence (an instrument, the resort of those losing power). Explain in your own words why she says ‘out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, but never power.’
Leads to Mao Zedong.
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