To concur with this article, the french Resistance started with kids and teenagers graffitying and parading during the national holiday in cities remote from centers of power. Then some adults started printing alternate news in the form of pamphlets. Only after a period came sabotaging, then armed resistance.
This is why it’s so incredibly important to enforce nonviolence on the side of the revolutionaries.
There’s a hidden assumption here. It’s important to appear nonviolent. Enforcing nonviolence is only useful insofar as it contributes towards appearing nonviolent. Information sources that are government-owned/sympathetic will paint you violent no matter what. Sources that are revolution-owned/sympathetic will paint you nonviolent no matter what. In an increasingly polarized world, what actually happens matters less and less to reputation.
For a revolution to succeed in a country where the government holds the monopoly of violence you need to convince part of the government that your revolution is a good idea. I would expect that the people that actually matter often have a good idea what actually happens.
An important aspect about carrying around the orange is that the policemen who’s ordered to go after the person who carries the orange has to justify his actions to themselves even if it doesn’t make the news. On the other hand the police man that’s the target of molotov cocktails has a clear idea that they go after people who deserve to be fought.
To concur with this article, the french Resistance started with kids and teenagers graffitying and parading during the national holiday in cities remote from centers of power.
To concur with this article, the french Resistance started with kids and teenagers graffitying and parading during the national holiday in cities remote from centers of power. Then some adults started printing alternate news in the form of pamphlets. Only after a period came sabotaging, then armed resistance.
There’s a hidden assumption here. It’s important to appear nonviolent. Enforcing nonviolence is only useful insofar as it contributes towards appearing nonviolent. Information sources that are government-owned/sympathetic will paint you violent no matter what. Sources that are revolution-owned/sympathetic will paint you nonviolent no matter what. In an increasingly polarized world, what actually happens matters less and less to reputation.
For a revolution to succeed in a country where the government holds the monopoly of violence you need to convince part of the government that your revolution is a good idea. I would expect that the people that actually matter often have a good idea what actually happens.
An important aspect about carrying around the orange is that the policemen who’s ordered to go after the person who carries the orange has to justify his actions to themselves even if it doesn’t make the news. On the other hand the police man that’s the target of molotov cocktails has a clear idea that they go after people who deserve to be fought.
The Zazous.