I guess that you will forgive my larger response than, for I wont justify violence while I will still challenge your point.
All systemic endeavors of society, including economic model, require violence to a degree. This is true about socialism, leftism, altruism and egalitarism as you perceive them (as in forcing the rich to share their economical accomplishments), but its also true about capitalism, conservatism, selfishness and individualism.
What exactly do you think prevent the hordes of poor and hungry people from robbing supermarkets, invading mansions, stealing limos, taking over banks, etc? Do you believe that it is a natural sense of respect for the obvious justice of the conservative social and economical approach to life, or anything else that can be linked with willingness or acceptance of their condition?
Sorry but it isnt so. Its the use of force, or threat of it, that makes the world functions as we understand it.
Dont believe me? Than remove force from equation. Revoke all penalties from the world, like death sentence, prison, fines, anything at all that has the purpose of hurting those who fail to obey society chosen paradigms and standards of right and wrong. Lets see than for just how long will people accept to be hungry knowing that there are granaries filled grains waiting for better market conditions; how many people will accept to be homeless knowing that there are people which own houses ten, twenty time as large as what they need, almost empties; how many people will accept to see their children lack schooling and clothing when there are kids from others that have so many things that they couldnt use them all not even once in their whole life times.
Just see what happened in Iraq right now. In the very minute that the threat of force was removed (and a power vacuum existed for a short time period), the population went after everything the privileged had, and they were deprived from. The very minute.
So, we can have a whole argument about the inherent value of violence and threat of violence as a political instrument to guarantee the work ability of society (when Ill probably ask you if you have any alternative to it at all, while I quote Montesquieus doctrine If man were angels, there would be no need of laws), but that would be an altogether different discussion than the one you proposed, that foolishly assumed a depreciative and inferior ground to policies of left-wing leaning.
No quite so, as I said. A left-wing domain would include violence just as much as a right-wing domain, the only difference would be a change of targets. The very essence of governments is factually the exclusive use of violence (named police power) for the purpose of granting the mechanisms of the social body.
My friend, the only reason why you feel the violence that is intrinsic to a left-wing perspective, and fail to perceive the one that is in a right-wing perspective, is the fact that the first would require a rupture with the values you are used to see being upheld. Thats why the idea of Bill Gates being forced to take in poor people in his mansion shocks you so much more than a starving beggar, drooling outside the window of a 7-eleven, forced to passively do nothing and conform with his hunger as he sees plenty of food at public display.
Yes, that is how our world works, but it does not mean that it have to be that way. This view isnt the only one possible, but just the one that better conforms to our economic model. And while I dont deny the necessity of respecting the rules of economy (hence things like private property being defended), Id like to point out that our respect for the gravity didnt prevent us from creating the parachute.
Economy can be cruel, but there are those among us humans who are not, and feel the need to help diminishing the endemic suffering derived from our social organization. Hence those things that you label as evil being actually the epitome of humanism, the symptom of an empathy for those who are less fortunate, and that may lack credit cards oh the terrible sin but are still human beings, whose suffering cannot be simply ignored.
Im sorry to say that, but systemic violence (governmental imposition over individuals) does exist in our society already, whether you notice it or not. So, I just say we should use a little bit of it for purposes that are humanistic, not economical.
Guaranteeing that your money stays in your pocket isnt the only thing our society exists for.
Regards
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I must have really sucked at math.