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[https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/22/a-few-things-about-nonviolence-a-response-to-yoav-litvin/ by Andie Stewart 22/9/17 COUNTERPUNCH] | [https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/09/22/a-few-things-about-nonviolence-a-response-to-yoav-litvin/ by Andie Stewart 22/9/17 COUNTERPUNCH] | ||
Yoav Litvin’s recent column, To Punch or Not to Punch – The American Left’s Existential Crisis, about nonviolence is a deeply mistaken and rather insulting piece of writing. His understanding of nonviolence is ahistorical and decontextualized. What he calls ‘nonviolence’ is not nonviolence, it is the liberal media’s false projection of nonviolence that has been created in the 50 years since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to function as a soft-power ideological state apparatus. | Yoav Litvin’s recent column, To Punch or Not to Punch – The American Left’s Existential Crisis, about nonviolence is a deeply mistaken and rather insulting piece of writing. His understanding of nonviolence is ahistorical and decontextualized. What he calls ‘nonviolence’ is not nonviolence, it is the liberal media’s false projection of nonviolence that has been created in the 50 years since the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. to function as a soft-power ideological state apparatus. | ||
=====Imagining the nonviolent state===== | |||
[https://www.vox.com/2020/6/17/21279950/nonviolence-king-gandhi-protesters-rioters-george-floyd by Ezra Klein 17/6/20 Vox] | |||
What if nonviolence wasn’t an inhuman standard demanded of the powerless, but an ethic upon which we reimagined the state? | |||
