"...Instead of rejecting the Spectacle's dichotomy regarding violence, [the nihilists] take the opposite pole from pacifism within the same paradigm created by it. The oldest trick of democracy is to control the terms of debate so that the two shown options, the good and the bad, reproduce the logic of power and the state. It is not possible to arrive at a radical vision within the statist paradigm..." excerpt from "The nihilist recuperation"