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mike pain · (#1 (**permalink**))

So I was having a discussion with my sister the other day about Christianity and passive resistance etcc we started talking about the conflicts resolved by force and those that were solve through pacifist means…..

We talked about Ghandi- about how his passive resistance supposedly freed India, I said It was more to do with the british empire being exhausted by years of war and it simply couldn’t afford to keep running India…there had been many Indian uprisings all brutally suppressed…

We talked about the ‘battle of Algiers’ how violent résistance helped to throw off the shackles of colonial rule…we talked about how violet overt resistance helped to garner world support for the African ANC cause, I told my sister that south African black majority rule had more to do with the fall of the USSR ( the western powers thought wrongly that nelson Mandela could be part of a new pro communist African state.

We started talking about martin Luther king and Malcolm-x as opposing figure heads.

She said that the 1968 equality act was more to do with king jr’s pacifism, I said It was more to do with the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, the Weathermen and the Brown Berets scaring those moderates into thinking that millitant ethnic minorites could become a communist fifth coloumn within capitalist america,

We talked about vietnam and the over throw of french colonial rule and later the repulsion american vets ( the american public couldn’t stand to see the body bags coming home)by millitant vietnamese

I summarised by saying that sis, on the whole violent action (the type espoused by philosophers Omali Yeshitela and Frantz Fanon) did work and did help emancipate

People on the whole, and that humans will never see an end to violence as long as compulsion through the state exists….

So I have to ask your opinion do violent protests and militancy do more for freedom than peaceful protests ..