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[https://www.vox.com/2020/6/17/21279950/nonviolence-king-gandhi-protesters-rioters-george-floyd by Ezra Klein 17/6/20 Vox] | [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? | What if nonviolence wasn’t an inhuman standard demanded of the powerless, but an ethic upon which we reimagined the state? | ||
=====The power of nonviolence===== | |||
[https://aeon.co/essays/nonviolence-has-returned-from-obscurity-to-become-a-new-force by aeon] | |||
No political action seems to enjoy greater moral authority than the nonviolent methods Mahatma Gandhi inaugurated more than a century ago. Gandhi’s neologism for nonviolent direct action was satyagraha, which roughly translates to ‘holding fast to truth’. While this term itself never caught on, in principle or form, nonviolent models of organising protest did. For decades, pro-democracy movements in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe have conspicuously embraced nonviolent politics to express mass dissent and topple authoritarian governments. | |||
