Asking the Oppressed to Be Nonviolent Is an Impossible Standard That Ignores History

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Yves Smith Yves here. It may well be that the circumstances where nonviolent protest can succeed are more limited than Gandhi and Martin Luther King fans would have you believe. Getting a ruling elite to cede significant power historically does seem to require violence. Ask the Visgoths in 476 AD, who I