US: Post Election Protests

[Steve Kinney]

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On 11/10/2016 10:58 AM, Razer wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/10/2016 03:47 AM, John Newman wrote some non-analytical
> nonsense:
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>> Violence ended slavery in the South. Violence created the so
>> called "land of the free" =)
>> 
>> Sometimes it's the solution.
>> 
>> John
> 
> Violence is a tactic. It can LEAD to a solution but it is not the 
> solution itself.
> 
> Rr

Right you are:  Everyone from Mao Tse Tung to the authors of current
U.S. Army counter-insurgency manuals agrees, an armed uprising needs a
/much/ larger network of committed non-combatant supporters to
succeed.  That network has to be built, and it has to offer its
participants "real hope" of a better way of running things, before a
shooting war can succeed.

Gene Sharp's description of the American Revolution provides an
excellent example:  In brief, Sharp contends that the war was largely
a matter of the Crown attempting to take its colonies back over from
their residents, who had negated most Crown authority through large
scale non-cooperation and the development of parallel institutions
rendering the Crown's administration obsolete.

http://www.fragmentsweb.org/fourtx/dishist.pdf

So-called revolutions that start with gunfire, end in Fascist police
states - because they are not revolutions so much as coups that kick
out the old bastards to make way for new, worse bastards.  When they
"succeed" that's normally due to backing by hostile foreign powers.

:o)


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