In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?
In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?
In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?
Spring 2021
Feb 16, 2021
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” John F. Kennedy, March 13, 1962
Over the past few years, advocates of nonviolence (such as myself) have been losing the debate in the climate movement. After decades of a well-funded and organized movement that has tried every nonviolent strategy, yet failed to pressure power structures away from the path of climate catastrophe, the promise of nonviolent success rests mainly on faith.
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Activist Andreas Malm urges sabotage as a way to save the planet
published : 22 Jan 2021 at 04:00
Sabotage, in French and in English, indicates the act of deliberately destroying or damaging property. It s an apparatus that aims at weakening an enemy or oppressor through means such as subversion and obstruction. It is a tool that, we are told, has been adopted by French workers as a substitute for strikes, but sabotage doesn t limit itself only to workplaces. Its literature survey connotes that it occurs within a variety of contexts in wars, political and social campaigns, or socio-economic programmes that effect someone s livelihood. In all cases, however, the intent of sabotage is analogous to use extreme civil disobedience to inflict damage upon goods or properties in order to serve a particular purpose or higher goal. The end justifies the means, according to the saboteurs.
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Do you remember April? It seems like decades ago, but I remember, amid the dread and claustrophobia of lockdown, an unexpected thrum of hope. Traffic had stopped. No aeroplanes crossed the sky and no pollution clogged it. Where I live we heard ambulances carrying off our neighbours almost daily but we heard birdsong too, louder than ever before. A tiny spiky ball of glycoproteins and ribonucleic acid had done what a century of dedicated revolutionaries had been unable to. It had slowed the world economy to a crawl.
It has been one of the defining accomplishments of contemporary capitalism that its totalising embrace makes it difficult to envision any other way of relating to one another and to the planet that we share. For a moment last spring, though, just as the world seemed to be ending, it was possible to glimpse the blurry outlines of another one, one far more beneficial to all non-human life. It became nakedly obvious that, among hum
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