‘Law and order’ is a phrase mouthed by hypocrites to command the obedience of cowards. The capitalist class buys law as it does labor, using the one to fleece the other, and what it means by “law and order” is cringing submission to slavery.

• E.V. Debs

The pigs can cry all they want about the attackers being motivated by “extreme leftist ideology”. The liberal states in Europe have ran their course. They cannot produce an improved existence for the working masses, only for the bourgeoisie. The cops, the laws and the whole of European society now exists (and has existed for a while) to protect and elevate the rights of the bourgeoisie – the class of people who own the means of production. Once those interests contradict – when the masses protest against the cuts in welfare caused by the neoliberal ideology of the bourgeoisie – the state’s monopoly on violence is turned against the masses to protect the rights of the bourgeoisie, whose class interests dictate the whole of society. When the state is unwilling (or unable) to provide concessions for the protesters (masses) demands, the police’s only resort is an initial show of violence to hopefully force the protesters to withdraw. When this doesn’t work the possibility of violence grows. Only once the state is willing to offer those concessions the violence and protesting can end, but when the interests contradict again (i.e. when the state grows unwilling or unable to provide concessions again) the violence will come also. One must solve the contradiction of state’s interests vs. the masses’ interests to solve the issue of societal tumult.