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Conspiramos juntes em duas conversas com Peter Gelderloos (autor de "Como A Não Violência Protege o Estado", "Anarquia Funciona", "Venerando o Poder", etc).
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26 de Agosto | 19H | Rua Penha de França 217B (Disgraça)
The Failure of Nonviolence // O Falhanço da Não Violência

Nonviolence has lost the debate. Over the last twenty years, more and more social movements and rebellions against oppression and exploitation have broken out across the world, and within these movements people have learned all over again that nonviolence does not work. They are learning that the histories of purported nonviolent victories have been falsified, that specific actions or methods that could be described as nonviolent work best when they are complemented by other actions or methods that are illegal and combative. They are learning that exclusive, dogmatic nonviolence does not stand a chance at achieving a revolutionary change in society, at getting to the roots of oppression and exploitation and bringing down those who are in power.

At best, nonviolence can oblige power to change its masks, to put a new political party on the throne and possibly expand the social sectors that are represented in the elite, without changing the fundamental fact that there is an elite that rules and benefits from the exploitation of everybody else. And if we look at all the major rebellions of the last two decades, since the end of the Cold War, it seems that nonviolence can only effect this cosmetic change if it has the support of a broad part of the elite—usually the media, the wealthy, and at least a part of the military, because nonviolent resistance has never been able to resist the full force of the State. When dissidents do not have this elite support, strict nonviolence seems like the surest way to kill a movement.

Peter Gelderloos is an anarchist from Virginia, and the author of several books, including How Nonviolence Protects the State (2005), Anarchy Works (2010), The Failure of Nonviolence (2013), and Worshiping Power: An Anarchist View of Early State Formation (2017). He lives in Catalunya