法を制定する暴力、法を維持する暴力。

　The law of this oscillation [between the violence that posits law and the violence that preserves it] rests on the fact that all law-preserving violence, in its duration, indirectly weakens the lawmaking violence represented by it, through the suppression of hostile counterviolence....
　This lasts until either new forces or those earlier suppressed triumph over the violence that had posited law until now and thus found a new law destined to a new decay. In the interruption of this cycle, which is maintained by mythical forms of law, is the deposition of law and all the forces on which it depends (as they depend on it) and, therefore, finally in the deposition of State power, a new historical epoch is founded. (Walter Benjamin, "Zur Kritik der Gewalt," p.202)

　極めて日常的な次元にもBenjaminの洞察は有効である。私は最近日々これを経験している。