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 text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.