The dominant ideology of capitalism is underpinned with violence.
People pay no attention to it as it is the norm.
Being evicted? that is violence, being imprisoned is also violence…. etc
To claim that defensive violence as a result of systemic violence is unacceptable or extreme is not seeing the wood for the trees….
I don’t know if you’ve read Adam Smith, but capitalism was actually quite ethical at conception. I think as soon as policy making becomes involved - everything becomes extreme which in the case of political ideologies go is usually a manifestation of violence
I havent but i askeed copilot and it said Smith based his objectives on a system underpinned by colonialism which was violent anyway. The orignal notion he based it on was too underpinned by violence and coercion as a precept, but that was his ‘norm’.
“Even Adam Smith’s era involved slavery, enclosure of land, and colonial exploitation — so “ethical conception” was already entangled with systemic violence”