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Amm.. That means British Monarch in India had conscience, when Mahathma Gandhi was promoting non-violence and hunger strike. Which I don't think is true.
In India it worked because British was sure that if they use force against someone promoting non-violence the retaliation will be uprising of a violent mob. Atrocities in India reached a high were majority of the people were affected by it and fed up by it. Like the modern times it was not possible to sway the public opinion through media of any kind.
Gandhi was a saint in practice, but more than that he was shrewd politician, who identified the weakness of British monarchy in India.
I don't know much about American History. But I believe that America not having a conscience could be one of the reason why the non-violence will not have worked. I am not sure if that is the primary reason. Can someone with more knowledge in American History provide an elaboration on this point? I feel there will be some missing context.
Well it is a global capitalist system... the rich bow in accordance to their debt to other nations. It is about leverage. Yet it seems India is thinking twice about its allegiance to some. This is why some celebrate the idea of isolationism which is only a short term solution to a bigger problem. We can not exist as we do without international trade. So we are kinda in a modern day pickle. So the commies like to dig out the root. The usa is the head of the global cartel. India will choose a side then assume its debt. The rich in india will be fine but the working class will suffer either way. Hitler was a hero of his people and he painted pretty pictures and kissed babys. FRAMEWORK FRAMEWORK YA'LL We don't need great men but a educated many. THE DISTURBING TRUTH ABOUT "MAHATMA GANDHI"
Non-violence was successfully used in the US during the civil rights protests. The quote feels correct for those protesting because change is slow and there are certainly some people without conscious. The non-violence movement displayed very clearly the oppressor and the oppressed and it eventually swayed public opinion enough to lead to lasting political change.
simply put wait til the bread gets short
Last time I checked change was fast and only moving in one direction. The USA is committing a genocide. 40+ years in the imperial core and all I have witnessed is decay. I also question those who think things have improved. In the USA slavery is still legal it is just obfuscate behind the prison walls of poor $$$ boys and girls who never had a chance to begin with. The milk toast opinions of some I find dangerous and shallow
I don't think the civil rights movement was at all "non-violent". just not "mass violence".
outside the white washing it's gotten. there was lots of violent and "silent violence"(using paint "bombs") to disrupt and force attention to the needs of the many. from the desires of the few.
Why do you think suburbs exist and car centrick societies with cameras everywhere... If violence never worked, why do they spend so much time making our infrastructure so difficult to navigate. Under the magnification glass like cattle moving through the stalls only to have the air gun placed on the back of our necks. People isolated then they kill themselves. I see the world I live in as it is not how I wish it were. Our ability to adapt is our strength and our weakness.