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The Politics of Nonviolent Action #1
Power and Struggle
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A rigorous analysis of political power, demonstrating that it derives from sources in the society. Even the power of dictators can be destroyed by withdrawal of necessary sources of cooperation. With an introduction to the technique of nonviolent action, its characteristics, history and achievements.
113 pages, Paperback
First published January 1,1973
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113 pages, Paperback
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January 1, 1973 by Extending Horizons Books
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9780875580708
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B0057IVTL4
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English
About the author
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Gene Sharp was an American political scientist. He was the founder of the Albert Einstein Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the study of nonviolent action, and professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was known for his extensive writings on nonviolent struggle, which have influenced numerous anti-government resistance movements around the world.
Sharp received the 2008 Int'l Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for his lifelong commitment to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through scholarly analysis of the power of nonviolent action. Unofficial sources have claimed that Sharp was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, and had previously been nominated three times, in 2009, 2012 and 2013. Sharp was widely considered the favorite for the 2012 award. In 2011, he was awarded the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize. In 2012, he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for "developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world".
Sharp received the 2008 Int'l Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award for his lifelong commitment to the defense of freedom, democracy, and the reduction of political violence through scholarly analysis of the power of nonviolent action. Unofficial sources have claimed that Sharp was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, and had previously been nominated three times, in 2009, 2012 and 2013. Sharp was widely considered the favorite for the 2012 award. In 2011, he was awarded the El-Hibri Peace Education Prize. In 2012, he was a recipient of the Right Livelihood Award for "developing and articulating the core principles and strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas around the world".
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The topic is important and the bookis dry, but only because there is no attempt and no need to glorify and sensationalize the topic. An exellent history of non-violence in the later portion of this volume. The first volume presents the view that tyrants have as much power as the people give them. interesting.
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أقل ما يقال عن التنظير على شعب تحت احتلال وتوجيهه لاختيار طريقة معينة في "الكفاح" بأنها وقاحة!
طورت لجان المقاومة الشعبيه الفلسطينية منهج كفاح لا عنف يفتخر به في السنوات الماضيه ، نتائجه مرحلية . جذب التعاطف وهذه النتائج لن تحرر بلادا وهذا امر واقع!
يسترسل بأنه ليس ذو خلفية معرفية متماسكة عن الوضع في الجانب الفلسطيني لكنه يظن بأن تجارب شعوب أخرى قد تنجح مع شعبنا. ويتوغل في الوقاحة بأن الكفاح الفلسطيني اللاعنيف سيكون مفيدا للشعب "الاسرائيلي" الذي سيحظى اخيرا بمجتمعه المثالي ويتخلص من عبء احتلال شعب اخر.
الشعب الفلسطيني كان رائدا في تجربة العصيان المدني في ثورة 36 لكن تجربة كفاح اللاعنف يجب ان تسير جنبا الى جنب مع الكفاح الثوري العنيف.
طورت لجان المقاومة الشعبيه الفلسطينية منهج كفاح لا عنف يفتخر به في السنوات الماضيه ، نتائجه مرحلية . جذب التعاطف وهذه النتائج لن تحرر بلادا وهذا امر واقع!
يسترسل بأنه ليس ذو خلفية معرفية متماسكة عن الوضع في الجانب الفلسطيني لكنه يظن بأن تجارب شعوب أخرى قد تنجح مع شعبنا. ويتوغل في الوقاحة بأن الكفاح الفلسطيني اللاعنيف سيكون مفيدا للشعب "الاسرائيلي" الذي سيحظى اخيرا بمجتمعه المثالي ويتخلص من عبء احتلال شعب اخر.
الشعب الفلسطيني كان رائدا في تجربة العصيان المدني في ثورة 36 لكن تجربة كفاح اللاعنف يجب ان تسير جنبا الى جنب مع الكفاح الثوري العنيف.
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This is the first volume of Sharp's classic treatment of nonviolent resistance to power. Perhaps because it is a classic most of this brief volume seems familiar to me. Having read a lot of other work in the nonviolent resistance genre of dissident and radical thought, I am familiar with most of what he says. Sharp was the first to codify the scattered writings into a cohesive whole, which is precisely what makes it valuable. The brevity of the book (barely 100 pages) is to its advantage, as many people in repressed countries around the world have discovered to their delight. Anyway, it is good to have read this, and I will be working through volumes two and three in due course.
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It’s a shame that this book is not more widespread and sharpe’s analysis and work synthesizing the struggles together are really great for thinking through issues that we are facing right now in the United States. Highly recommend
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This 1973 publication has been translated into many languages and served as a revolutionary manual for insurgencies around the world. It is very relevant to the current RESISTANCE movement in America. It shows that "peaceful demonstrations" and other acts of citizen resistance to state authority can be A FORM OF WARFARE. Public Resistance, implemented strategically through "Nonviolent Action," can and will undermine the capacity of government to rule. Examples from history are provided to illustrate the power of Resistance from THE BUREAUCRACY as well as from the general population. Reading these histories will alert us to the potential consequences of events we observe in our own day.
"Changes in the attitudes of ... citizens ... which result in withdrawal of obedience and cooperation can create extreme difficulties for the system (government). It can be disrupted or paralyzed. ...The sheer difficulties of maintaining the normal working of any political unit when its subjects are bent upon an attitude of defiance and acts of obstruction are sufficient to give any ruler cause for thought. Without the obedience, cooperation, assistance and submission of the subjects and agents, ... men claiming to be rulers would be 'rulers' without subjects, and therefore only 'objects of derision.'" (p.32)
"Changes in the attitudes of ... citizens ... which result in withdrawal of obedience and cooperation can create extreme difficulties for the system (government). It can be disrupted or paralyzed. ...The sheer difficulties of maintaining the normal working of any political unit when its subjects are bent upon an attitude of defiance and acts of obstruction are sufficient to give any ruler cause for thought. Without the obedience, cooperation, assistance and submission of the subjects and agents, ... men claiming to be rulers would be 'rulers' without subjects, and therefore only 'objects of derision.'" (p.32)
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Practical, focused, engagingly written, and refreshingly free from histrionics, this is the best book about how social movements actually happen that I've read. After squinting my way through a lot of obfuscating bullshit on similar subjects it's refreshing to find an emperor who's fully clothed. I definitely plan on reading the other volumes.
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