HOW NONVIOLENCE PROTECTS THE STATE - Peter Gelderloos

How Nonviolence Protects The State
Peter Gelderloos
2007
South End Press
ISBN: 978-0896087729

People working for social change face plenty of difficult questions, but sometimes matters of strategy and tactics receive low priority. Among many North American activists, the role of nonviolence as the default mode of struggle bears little scrutiny. Is nonviolence effective at ending systems of oppression? How is nonviolence connected to white privilege? Is militancy naturally macho, or does pacifism reinforce the same power dynamics as patriarchy? Ultimately, does nonviolence protect the State? How Nonviolence Protects the State brings existing criticisms of nonviolence, and several new ones, together into one book, in an attempt to illuminate one of the most severe roadblocks to social change today. Now in a new, revised, expanded and updated edition.

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