This is a conceptual, anthological and descriptive article. We will refer to the problems of the theoretical forum related to the definition of violence and associate it not only with the exercise of power but with its overthrow. We expose it from a dialectical perspective. First, violence is analyzed as a form of constitution of the state; secondly as a form of state maintenance; and, lastly, as a form of state destruction. In other words, in the first two perspectives, violence is seen as an institutional element, and in the last one it is analyzed as a way to challenge that same institutional dimension. Thus we enter the field of subversion. The article refers to conceptual representations that see violence as an instrumental dimension, ...