In the years since the end of the Cold War many new social movements have started peacefully only to adopt a diversity of tactics as they grew in strength and collective experiences The last ten years have revealed more clearly than ever the role of nonviolence Propped up by the media funded by the government and managed by NGOs nonviolent campaigns around the world have helped oppressive regimes change their masks and have helped police to limit the growth of rebellious social movements Repeatedly losing the debate within the movements themselves proponents of nonviolence have increasingly turned to the mainstream media and to government and institutional funding to drown out critical voices The Failure of Nonviolence examines most of the major social upheavals following the Cold War to reveal the limits of nonviolence and uncover what a diverse unruly non pacified movement can accomplish Critical of how a diversity of tactics has functioned so far this book discusses how movements for social change can win ground and open the spaces necessary to plant the seeds of a new world

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BERNSTEIN, Steven J.

Patio Table, Seattle

<p>Anarchy, as the absence of government, is neither chaos nor some impossible Utopian dream. In fact it is a very common form of political organisation and one which has characterised much of the human past. People Without Government describes briefly the anarchic political structures of a number of these societies. True they are mainly small-scale hunting, gathering and horticultural groups. However, the social organisation of certain large populations with complex relations is also sometimes anarchic. Thus anarchy applies to a broad spectrum of different kinds of societies. This book seeks to show what anarchy has been like in practice. Special attention is paid to the techniques of leadership, maintaining order and decision-making. The dynamic interplay between freedom and authority is considered, particularly the apparent tendency of anarchic polities to degenerate into states with government and for organisations to become oligarchies, and it is concluded that liberty and individuality are at best very tenuous and fleeting entities. There can be no relenting in the struggle for freedom.</p>

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