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How Nonviolence Protects the State

by Peter Gelderloos

A challenge to nonviolence as the sole strategy

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A challenge to nonviolence as the sole strategy

Peter Gelderloos examines the prominence of nonviolence in US left-wing protest, connecting that doctrine to practices such as seeking police permits and rejecting self-defense or armed resistance. The book questions whether nonviolence should be treated as the only route to social change and argues that its exclusive use can reinforce structures activists oppose. Its subject is therefore both tactical and political: how protest methods relate to authority, resistance, and the pursuit of a different social order.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Activists interested in debates over protest tactics and strategy
  • Readers exploring anarchist political thought and critiques of state authority
  • Those interested in arguments about nonviolence, self-defense, and resistance

Themes

Nonviolence and protest strategyState authority and political resistanceAnarchist critiques of oppression

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Book overview

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.
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