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The understanding of East and West and the confrontation of western capitalism in its nomadic development is compounded by fundamentalisms which are inherently nomadic. Both forms of nomadisms have their own power to produce violence. The understanding of East and West nomadism cannot be adequately comprehended at the cultural level but must be addressed at the civilizational level in which anarchistic power is an arbitrary creating collisions in their wake.
Introduction
It has been said that the global process is designed to eliminate anarchistic and even terroristic violence, and replace it by market based democracy as the new world order. There is no need to debate the contradictory phrase "market based democracy," since the task of this discussion is to explicate the way that this phrase (and more basic ontological-metaphysical preunderstandings) belong to anarchistic violence. To make sense of anarchistic violence it is necessary to distinguish among its various forms and locate the arche of anarchy as it appears in various modifications. Once this task is accomplished, the globalizing processes will appear in a very different light than the one that is paraded by the protagonists (including "objective" journalists) who regard globalization as a bearer of universal French fries and potato chips made from genetically enhanced, although locally grown spuds by indigenous peasants, and reaped by colorfully dressed native maidens. In brief, the modifications of such violence will show to what extent there arise confrontations among anarchies and, in the final analysis, how they might belong to the same metaphysics. But before this confrontation can be understood, a brief logic of anarchistic violence should be sketched in order to show its unique characteristics that are different from other modes of violence, such as revolutionary-despite the fact that anarchists invariably are defined as revolutionaries. It must be noted that as other modes of violence, anarchistic is also a phenomenon that first of all belongs to experience and not to some assumed "ground." This is to say, it is part of human conscious life. Therefore the term "consciousness" will be used to designate a given mode of perception that is basically a theoretical or a philosophical system. Another term that is relevant for this investigation is "conscience," and it stands for ethical awareness. Although...