What is a bank robbery compared to starting a bank? What is violence that is committed in violation of the law, in comparison with violence that is supported and sanctified in the name of the law? These pressing questions are raised in his book by the famous leftist philosopher Slavoj Zizek. He calls us to free ourselves from the spell of immediate visible “subjective” violence and to discern behind its outbursts the much less glaring systemic violence that thrives in the shadows of the institutions of modern liberal society. Violence is not a direct characteristic of certain actions. The same action can be considered violent or non-violent depending on the context. Sometimes a polite protocol smile can be more violence than an aggressive hooligan prank. The book’s text has been translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence system. In most cases, the translation is accurate and clear, but occasionally there may be incorrect phrasing or individual words left untranslated.