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moonyreadsbystarlight's review
challenging
informative
3.75
Around 3.5 or 4 ⭐️
This has a lot of really great discussion about the issues that come with a hard-line pacifist stance and utilizes a lot of strong examples. Regardless of your political stance, I think it has a lot of really important points.
It has a lot of interesting things to say about how history is represented, as well as the role of privilege in this position as strict pacifism. Many points are made about the relationship of the state to nonviolence, including how the state treats nonviolence, how some nonviolent groups have complied with or enabled the state, and how so many pacifists overlook or completely misunderstand the state and the very real violence it is enacting. It also discusses strategy (or lack thereof) and the issue of the nebulous nature of even the definition of violence
The last 2 chapters were the weakest. The second to last chapter had important points, but they were not as well framed and integrated into the text as a whole. And did not see the chapter on alternatives as fully fleshed out.
Overall, it was a strong read, very interesting, and it's definitely one I will be thinking about for a while.
This has a lot of really great discussion about the issues that come with a hard-line pacifist stance and utilizes a lot of strong examples. Regardless of your political stance, I think it has a lot of really important points.
It has a lot of interesting things to say about how history is represented, as well as the role of privilege in this position as strict pacifism. Many points are made about the relationship of the state to nonviolence, including how the state treats nonviolence, how some nonviolent groups have complied with or enabled the state, and how so many pacifists overlook or completely misunderstand the state and the very real violence it is enacting. It also discusses strategy (or lack thereof) and the issue of the nebulous nature of even the definition of violence
The last 2 chapters were the weakest. The second to last chapter had important points, but they were not as well framed and integrated into the text as a whole. And did not see the chapter on alternatives as fully fleshed out.
Overall, it was a strong read, very interesting, and it's definitely one I will be thinking about for a while.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation and Racism
Moderate: Sexual violence
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