Is political violence inherently wrong?

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The trouble with violence is it tends to increase the amount of disorder. Disorder leads to a power vacuums, which are far likelier to be filled by counter-revolutionaries, reactionaries, strongmen and other such nasties than anything remotely nice.

Look at state-sanctioned violence like, say, the Terror - despite having a "worthy" aim, it quickly spiralled beyond control and completely crippled the radical aspects of the revolution, allowing counter-revolutionaries to take over.

I'm not saying violence doesn't have its place. Some regimes and movements simply must be taken down under moral grounds. The Nazis. The Falangist rebelllion. The KKK. All of them are appropriate targets for violence, simply because they themselves have no respect for non-violent avenues of change. But violence should be approached with caution.