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It is a fundamental difficulty for a republic
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The Monopoly of Violence

It is a fundamental difficultyfor a republic to break from its revolutionary roots

It is a fundamental difficulty
for a republic to break from its revolutionary roots

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It is a fundamental difficulty for a republic
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to break from its revolutionary roots.
Duration
9 seconds
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45
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:34
Uploaded
May 29, 2025
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documentary
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A group of citizens question and confront their views on the social order, and the legitimacy of the use of violent police force.
The gilets jaunes surged into that revolutionary mythology. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:06
The gilets jaunes surged into that revolutionary mythology.
They mobilize resistance to oppression, for the right of insurrection. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
They mobilize resistance to oppression, for the right of ins...
Everyone is struggling with their own republican mythology. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
Everyone is struggling with their own republican mythology.
With a very conflictual logic, and one of breaking away. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
With a very conflictual logic, and one of breaking away.
No cause - The Monopoly of Violence 00:17
No cause
Those guilty of that violence - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
Those guilty of that violence
They betray the causes they claim to serve, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
They betray the causes they claim to serve,
They will be identified - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
They will be identified
When people say the police use legitimate force - The Monopoly of Violence 00:14
When people say the police use legitimate force
There's a confusion with the political notion of legitimacy, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:10
There's a confusion with the political notion of legiti...
And that's different from lawfulness. That's the problem now in France. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
And that's different from lawfulness. That's the p...
The Minister can say. It's legal to use weapons - The Monopoly of Violence 00:11
The Minister can say. It's legal to use weapons
It's legal to use those weapons, so there's no problem. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's legal to use those weapons, so there's no pro...
I'm not shocked that the state needs the monopoly on violence. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
I'm not shocked that the state needs the monopoly on vi...
It's a condition of democracy. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a condition of democracy.
It's a condition of shared well-being. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:04
It's a condition of shared well-being.
It's a condition of a modern republic. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:05
It's a condition of a modern republic.
What makes democ-tatorship, - The Monopoly of Violence 00:15
What makes democ-tatorship,
What's at stake here is that the legal violence of the police - The Monopoly of Violence 00:15
What's at stake here is that the legal violence of the ...
Those illegitimacies have been piling up for decades. - The Monopoly of Violence 00:07
Those illegitimacies have been piling up for decades.