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Pacifism as Pathology
Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America | Ward Churchill, Michael Ryan, Ed Mead
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Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay Pacifism as Pathology was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing—and deliberately self-neutralizing—"hegemony of nonviolence" on the North American left. The essay's publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan's penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill's premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white "progressives," is inherently counterrevolutionary. This book challenges the pacifist movement's heralded victories, suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Along with a preface by Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodríguez, these essays are being released in a fresh edition.
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The question regarding nonviolence as a form of American activism has not been, "How can we forge a revolutionary politics within which we can avoid inflicting violence on others?" On the contrary, a more accurate articulation would be, "What sort of politics might I engage in which will allow me to posture as a progressive AND allow me to avoid incurring harm to MYSELF?"

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Mao, 1939

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Praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis praxis. The author seems to love this word, and his constant use of it is kind of annoying. Other than that, this is a good (and important) book.

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In which the author confronts the myth that nonviolent mass movement against the war forced LBJ from office when he failed to withdraw from Vietnam.

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