Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America
by Ward Churchill
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Pacifism as Pathology is a dissident classic. Originally written during the '80s, the seminal essay 'Pacifism as Pathology' was prompted by Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing - and deliberately self-neutralising - 'hegemony of nonviolence' on the North American left. The essay's publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the US and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan's penning of an essay reinforcing Churchill's premise that show more nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white 'progressives,' is counterrevolutionary. show lessTags
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After reading about the FBI's COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party, non-violence (or even the idea of self-defense promoted by the BPP) in the face of arguably the most violent government in history is either completely irrational or intentionally ineffective. So Churchill argues.
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Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Cherokee) is professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder.
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government, History
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- 303.66 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Conflict and conflict resolution ; Violence War and peace
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- JZ5584 .N7 .C49 — Political Science International relations International relations Promotion of peace. Peaceful change
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