For all its fanfare, nonviolence is decrepit. Nonviolent theory rests on a large number of manipulations, falsifications, and delusions. Nonviolent practice is ineffective and self-serving. In a revolutionary sense, not only has nonviolence never worked, it has never existed. Driving a car, eating meat, eating tofu, paying rent, paying taxes, being nice to a cop -all of these are violent activities. The global system and everyone in it are soaked in violence; it is enforced, involuntary. For those suffering under the violence of colonialism, military occupation, or racial oppression, nonviolence is not always an option -people must either fight back violently against their oppressor or displace that violence into anti-social violence against one another…

Peace is not an option until after the culturally organized violence that is the state is destroyed…Our options have been violently constrained to the following: actively supporting the violence of the system tacitly supporting that violence by failing to challenge it; supporting some of the existing forceful attempts to destroy the system of violence; or pursuing new and original ways to fight and destroy that system. Privileged activists need to understand what the rest of the world’s people have known all too long: we are in the midst of a war, and neutrality is not possible. There is nothing in this world currently deserving of the name peace. Rather, it is a question of whose violence frightens us most, and on whose side we will stand.