Is non violence practical?
Let’s put it this way – there are many times when violence is impractical. After all, it is violence that many oppressors are MOST capable of resisting. An unarmed man may or may not evoke pity from a tank crew, but he is not likely to prevent them from doing what they want in any other way. Acting violent may even play well into the justifications of an oppressor… whether or not he pities you before you are violent, he will probably have little enough for you afterward (few Americans pitied downtrodden members of the Middle East before 9/11, but for years afterward even the appearance of sympathy was cause for public castigation). Nor does nonviolence merely hope for results… oppressors oppress for a REASON. Enough resistors can make it almost impossible to accomplish any action. A tank can level a city, but no amount of tanks can grow a field of crops. Countries that conquer don’t usually want dirt and corpses. These things have no value. Instead they want production and cooperat
