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Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America

Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America

Mead, Ed
Ryan, Michael
Churchill, Ward

Paperback

General Political ScienceSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $15.95

ISBN10: 1629632244
ISBN13: 9781629632247
Publisher: PM Press
Published: Apr 15 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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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