[news] How Nonviolence Protects the State

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Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities, even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits..._How Nonviolence Protects the State_ challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world...**Peter Gelderloos** invites activists to consider diverse tactics, passionately arguing that exclusive nonviolence often acts to reinforce the same structures of oppression that activists seek to overthrow.

  


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