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While the precise form which might be assumed by the scapegoating involved in a consolidation of North American fascism remains unknown, it is clear that the posture of the mass nonviolent movement clearly approximates that of the Jews in Germany during the 1930’s. The notion that “it can’t happen here” is merely a parallel to the Jewish perception that it wouldn’t happen there; insistence on inhabiting a comfort zone even while thousands upon thousands of Third World peasants are cremated beneath canisters of American napalm is only a manifestation of “the attitude of going on with business as usual, even in a holocaust.” Ultimately, as Bettelheim observed, it is the dynamic of attempting to restrict opposition to state terror to symbolic and nonviolent responses which gives the state “the idea that [it’s victims can] be gotten to the point where they [will] walk into the gas chambers on their own.” And, as the Jewish experience has shown for anyone who cares to look at the matter in the face, the very inertia of pacifist principles prevents any effective conversion to armed self-defense once adherents are targeted for systematic elimination by the state.
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Pacifism As Pathology, by Ward Churchill
Note: Non-violence can be used effectively, as Tim DeChristopher has shown. However, we need to move beyond symbolic protests if we wish to build a successful resistance movement.
(via cultureofresistance, cuntymint) Hearing reports back from my friends in SF. Dance parties in the street? wtf? (via cuntymint)
It seems that the left these days view their job as being as non-threatening to those in power as possible. -.-
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