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Title: Pacifism As Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America by Ward Churchill, Mike Ryan, Ed Mead ISBN: 1-894037-07-3 Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The reality of revolution
Comment: This little book has changed the way I think about nonviolence as a be all end all strategy for social change. Churchill makes it very clear that the oppressed cannot expect the oppressor to some how take his moral position of nonviolence just because the oppressed practice it as a strategy for social change.

Another important point I picked up from this book is that proponents of nonviolence CANNOT excommunicate those who want to use violence as a strategy to bring about social change. And usually the be all end all strategy of nonviolence is common among a white progressive elite, not among the colonized, the victims of violence and most citizens of third world countries.
As churchill points out, if we truly want social change in the United States, and beyond our borders, we can't expect to get it from a strategy of pacifism only. History has proven him correct.

This book is definately a must read for anyone who wants to bring about social change.

Rating: 2
Summary: lousily argumented book, but not without value...
Comment: I think the only thing this book succeeds at is
at criticising leftist activism in north
america of the last decades. Makes some good
points about it's weaknesses. But as a criticism
of non-violence in general or as an advocacy of
violent or armed struggle it utterly fails.

Lousily argumented throughout.

The author doesn't even seem to have understood
that non-violence isn't equal to passivity.

Am still looking forward to read From a native son
though. Hope it holds more water than this one.

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Antidote
Comment: Churchill's little essay, originally written in the mid-80s neither is nor purports to be the be-all/end-all articulation of the position involved.

It IS, however, a near-perfect antidote to the sanctimoniously self-serving gibberish penned by all the reviewers thus far, other than Derrick Jenson.

One can take particular exception to the assertion advanced by "a reader from Boulder" that there have been significant advances in the "nonviolent movement" since the 1960s. All one need do is LOOK AROUND to discern the sheer delusional falsity embodied in this standard "pacifist" rejoinder to Churchill's reflections.

But, then, this sort of delusional behavior adds up to one of Churchill's main points about the sham that parades itself as pacifism in North America, so maybe we all owe the Boulder reader a hearty "thank you" for having provided such a perfect illustration.

In any event, PACIFISM AS PATHOLOGY is well worth the minor amount of time required to give it a read. The fact is that it's a little gem, and the publisher should be commended for having made it generally available.

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