How Nonviolence Protects the State

How Nonviolence Protects the State
by Peter Gelderloos

How Nonviolence Protects the State
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Author: Peter Gelderloos
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-05-01
ISBN: 0896087727
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: South End Press

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Book Review: From a student activist
Summary: 5 Stars

For my birthday this year, a friend gave me Peter Gelderloos's How Nonviolence Protects the State. I was quite taken aback, and a little hurt, after having become a passionate nonviolent activist during high school and through my years at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Although a bit skeptical, I began reading and, to my surprise, found myself exhilarated. For the three years I have been in the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC, I have had one constant thing pounded into my head: learn to question all voices equally, including one's own - be critically aware, get into the cracks in things, and then keep going. And yet, I had not applied this approach to one of the ideas I hold very dear to me. Gelderloos shook my head, made me re-examine, re-evaluate, re-think.

Summary of How Nonviolence Protects the State

Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities?even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In a call bound to stir controversy and lively debate, Peter Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.

Contemporary movements for social change face plenty of difficult questions, but sometimes matters of strategy and tactics receive low priority. Many North American activists fail to scrutinize the role of nonviolence, never posing essential questions:

? Is nonviolence effective at ending systems of oppression?

? Does nonviolence intersect with white privilege and the dominance of North over South?

? How does pacifism reinforce the same power dynamic as patriarchy?

? Ultimately, does nonviolence protect the state?

Peter Gelderloos is a radical community organizer. He is the author of Consensus: A New Handbook for Grassroots Political, Social, and Environmental Groups and a contributor to Letters From Young Activists. He is the co-facilitator of a workshop on the prison system, and is also involved in independent media, copwatching, anti-oppression work, and anarchist organizing.

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