but power can't be abolished, life is power. power congealed in the state and capital (or other ways) confronts us a domination, but as long as we are alive we have some power, and thus inescapable moral agency, and a capacity for violence (and of course love ...). My problem with what you are advocating is it seems to be trying to abolish that irreducible part of the fabric of our being.
I understand what you're getting at with 'non-violence' as opposed to 'pacifism' - you are advocating action not passivism (pardon the pun 
). but i don't think an absolutist approach to violence is tenable - what do you think the jews of the warsaw ghetto should have done, or the anarcho-syndicalists in spain in '36 faced with a fascist coup, or someone getting raped - is a rape victim just as bad as the rapist if they offer physical resistance? or do we recognise a line, however blurry and difficult to exactly pinpoint, between defence and aggression, power and domination?
thats what i'm getting at with the inescapable 'impossible decision' or moral agency, particularly with regard to violence: there is no strict demarcation between defence and aggression, but we are forced to distinguish them anyway. i think an absolutist aproach to violence that disregards all context only works if you believe in an afterlife (gandhi, MLK), i.e. if you're a transcendentalist. if you're a materialist, if you think we are in this world and of this world and we have to live in this world, you have to confront this 'impossible decision', imho.
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I understand what you're trying to say, but it doesn't really work. If only those with power can do good or bad, because power gives them this 'ability' to do good or bad, then what is it that revolutionaries are doing? Pacifism, or bettery yet non-violent revolution, is just an alternative attempt at abolishing power.
Like I said earlier, "pacifism" might not have been the best word to explain my idea. Non-violence seems to be a better explanation. Pacifism evokes the idea that people will do nothing and hope for things to change. That I do not condone.