![]() ![]() It is hard to argue against Gelderloos’s main thesis. Nonviolence is Ineffective, Nonviolence is Racist, etc.), and the last chapter is devoted to an alternative. Each chapter is titled after a supporting argument (e.g. He further argues this cut off is necessary because pacifists don’t have a good argument for nonviolence and only have hegemony due to falsified history and state complicity. In the introduction, Gelderloos immediately puts forward that the idea of nonviolence is so pervasive that a real discussion of strategy and tactics is cut off. His thesis is 1) pacifists have a limited view of violence, 2) the terms violence and nonviolence only work to limit tactics and therefore effectiveness, and 3) without using the full range of tactics, victory isn’t possible. tactics, something sorely missing in many discussions. ![]() ![]() He has scathing critiques for what he terms the “anti-war movement” as well as for the work to shut down the School of the Americas, the US military base training Latin American torturers. Gelderloos calls to task pacifists for their protest etiquette, specifically for serving as arms of the police and for mandating demonstration codes of conduct. ![]() A short read at only 143 pages, he does make some interesting points. Gelderloos first published How Nonviolence Protects the State in 2005, and recently it was reissued. Review of HOW NONVIOLENCE PROTECTS THE STATE by Peter Gelderloos ![]()
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