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In reply to the discussion: Is it just me? [View all]Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)145. You're assuming a bloody revolution.
That may be entirely the wrong model.
Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Resistance-Works-Nonviolent/dp/0231156839/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374855104&sr=1-2-fkmr1&keywords=chenoweth+sargent
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories.
Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment.
Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.
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No, it's not just him, there are at least two of us. However I agree we can work through our
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#51
It clearly provides you with needed status feelings, you are one of just a few DUers
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#180
How are you going to work through a problem with your head in the sand?
Fantastic Anarchist
Jul 2013
#175
I don't dislike it...just sounds HEAVILY influenced by Sgt. Pepper's to me...
Moostache
Jul 2013
#171
and is there really any issue that a sizable number of Americans are willing to kill other Americans
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#86
so over what issue do you think a substantial number of Americans will be willing to
arely staircase
Jul 2013
#144
incrementally as in 6 years. from 1933 to 1938 when Hitler went from pogroms to invasions
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#48
I have. I'm speaking of actual rise to power when people supported Hitler to 1938 when the world saw
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#71
my brother and I spent years studying WW1...the "cease fire", Spanish Civil War and WW2
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#75
that's great. I am sure you learned a lot you couldn't merely from a textbook
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#84
You could be right especialy if in the next dexade or so Caucasians continue towards moinority in US
lunasun
Jul 2013
#138
And this is where you get answers like #48, without any thought to the fact that
Cleita
Jul 2013
#56
are you for real? I want Guantanamo closed as much as the next person and some kind of due process
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#82
ever heard of false equivalence? it is an insult to the millions of Jews, homosexuals, conscientious
Pretzel_Warrior
Jul 2013
#93
Yes, that's the excuse. We don't exterminate Jews. I can't think of any Jewish person who would
Cleita
Jul 2013
#97
People are called delusional when they say there have been Nazi comparisons.
great white snark
Jul 2013
#112
An entire industry of private prisons is being developed in this country,
woo me with science
Jul 2013
#81
There was a revolution. The super-rich won while the MSM diverted our attention. We lost.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#49
Have nots against the haves, and the people they buy...else it would be awfully one-sided. n/t
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#38
Yea there may be no time for issues that divide and the whole danm group needs a time out
lunasun
Jul 2013
#139
I keep seeing a new kind of homeless people on the streets. people who have not
robinlynne
Jul 2013
#31
I have. In South America, in the 1940s when all the tinpot dictators ruled everything.
Cleita
Jul 2013
#98
But in the back it really, really sucks for tens of millions of people. And has for some time. n/t
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#44
No. Not when we have a president who promised to look forward and keeps dragging us back.
MotherPetrie
Jul 2013
#60
"being held hostage by crazy people". If we would quit volunteering to write the damn ransom notes
jtuck004
Jul 2013
#67
I apologize for saying so, but your perspective appears to be incredibly myopic
Dragonfli
Jul 2013
#100
You're welcome, I have been working on my manners and I am pleased it is being noticed.
Dragonfli
Jul 2013
#162
No it's not you. And more and more and coming to the realization every day. nt
matthews
Jul 2013
#121
It's you, you complain a lot...I'm not the first person to tell you this either
uponit7771
Jul 2013
#126
Not just you. The neoliberal agenda has decimated countries around the world.
RedCappedBandit
Jul 2013
#135
Yes. It's you. Gird your loins. Generations before us have faced much worse and
msanthrope
Jul 2013
#140
K&R for a good point and for bringing out the usual boot lickers. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2013
#158
Calm down, Manny. Take a deep breath and repeat: "This is the best of all possible worlds."
tclambert
Jul 2013
#169