Una antroposociogénesis de la violencia política (entrevista de Max Pagès)

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In this text, Edgar Morin and Max Pagès dialogue and reflect on various issues related to political violence. They refer and analyze situations and processes that generate political violence: the pathological rupture of the counterweight between affectivity and rationality; social crises, which are accompanied by an increase in uncertainty and anguish; negative and positive feedbacks present in crises and outbreaks of violence; the regression to elements of an archaic mentality (revenge, scapegoat, manichaeism, demonization of the adversary, mental and relational closure, need for saving leaders); revanchist ideology and victim culture. The authors present their ideas by reference to three historical cases: the outbreak of the First World War, the civil war in the former Yugoslavia and the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Morin concludes proposing a policy of civilization, based on a reform of thought and love, and vindicating a civilization of non-violence.