Pacifism as pathology
Subtitle: reflections on the role of armed struggle in North America
By: Ward Churchill and Michael Ryan ; preface by Ed Mead ; foreword by Dylan Rodríguez
Contributors: Ryan, Mike, 1957-
Edition: Third edition, revised and expanded.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781629632247
Subjects: Political violence; Peace movements; Pacifism
Description: "Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay Pacifism as Pathology was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growingand deliberately self-neutralizing"hegemony of nonviolence" on the North American left. The essay's publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan's penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill's premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white "progressives," is inherently counterrevolutionary. This book challenges the pacifist movement's heralded victories, suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. " -- Amazon.com
Table of contents: title: Pacifism as pathology: notes on an American Pseudopraxis / by Ward Churchill; title: A debate revisited / by Michael Ryan; title: On Ward Churchill's "Pacifism as Pathology" : toward a revolutionary practice / by Michael Ryan.