For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which someone intentionally inflicts harm on others
In his book Power and Civility, Norbert Elias linked a king's power over taxation to his control over this phenomenon. In his book The Powers That Be, American theologian Walter Wink identified an archetypal literary plot dating all the way back to the Enuma Elish, which he calls the myth of the "redemptive" form of this phenomenon. A book that supports this phenomenon analyzes the myth of the "general strike," and was serialized in Le Mouvement Socialiste. A 2011 book rejects the "hydraulic" theory of this phenomenon and begins by identifying six transitions (*) away from it, such as the civilizing process and rights' revolutions. Stephen Pinker wrote about the decline of this phenomenon in The Better Angels of Our Nature, and George Sorel wrote a set of "reflections" on it. In his essay Politics as a Vocation, Max Weber claims that the state holds a monopoly on the legitimate form of this phenomenon. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which someone intentionally inflicts harm on others
In his book Power and Civility, Norbert Elias linked a king's power over taxation to his control over this phenomenon.
violence [or force; or harm before it is read].