How Nonviolence Protects The State
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Petite intro à un texte de Peter Gelderloos disponible sur ZineLibrary.info : ►http://centreofthepsyclone.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/how-nonviolence-protects-the-state.pdf
I approached How Nonviolence Protects The State by Peter Gelderloos expecting a pro-violence rant, but still curious to see what the argument would be. What I found was less of an argument and more of an analysis of the issue of violence and nonviolence within political struggles, discussed from a seldom-if-at-all taken perspective.
A basic premise of the book is that the argument in favour of nonviolent resistance is based on selective, and therefore biased, historical information, particularly that to do with the independence and human rights campaigns of Gandhi and King. When usually omitted information is included in the analysis, statements (chapter headings in the book) such as:
NONVIOLENCE IS INEFFECTIVE
NONVIOLENCE IS RACIST
NONVIOLENCE IS STATIST
NONVIOLENCE IS PATRIARCHAL
NONVIOLENCE IS TACTICALLY AND STRATEGICALLY INFERIOR
look more reasoned and less sensationalist and unlikely.