My paper will show that in the situation of evolving and extended colonialism, the capacity to dispense and use violence is part of the process of recovering political subjectivity. The capacity, desire, and inspiration to inflict disruption to the quotidian processes can be ascribe to as political subjectivity. This is my paper’s claim following a constructivist grounded theory approach to the work of the politically underground movement in the Philippines called Christians for National Liberation (CNL).
I will focus on CNL’s sources and ways on drawing justification on the violence produced by the armed struggle they support. Violence, as a theological unit of analysis, took different shape when viewed from the discursive practices of decolonial movements experiencing the effects of evolving colonialism. From the ground, the CNL’s capacity to enact violence is an indication of their capacity to recover themselves as political subject that has the capacity to create a kind of future that they themselves imagined and will create.