• ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      4 months ago

      Your 8-hour work week was achieved by “illegal protests” among other things. Getting rid of the divine right of kings was “illegal”.

      Setting the world on fire is somehow not “illegal” though.

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      4 months ago

      That’s appropriate when you’re trying to change certain things, not everything. When you’re trying to get civil rights or anything else that the higher ruling class doesn’t want you to have, it can and usually does necessitate illegal and violent protesting and uprising.

    • solo@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      Of course what you describe is a way of doing things. What you say and what I said are not exclusionary. People can have both legal and illegal approaches on the same topic. Sometimes it is justifiable on moral grounds to break the law, and many countries recognize that need in their constitutions.