{"product_id":"pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america-9781629632247","title":"Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePacifism as Pathology\u003c\/em\u003e has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay \"Pacifism as Pathology\" was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing--and deliberately self-neutralizing--\"hegemony of nonviolence\" on the North American left. The essay's publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan's penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill's premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white \"progressives,\" is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents' desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis short book challenges the pacifist movement's heralded victories--Gandhi in India, 1960s antiwar activists, even Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement--suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Churchill also examines the Jewish Holocaust, pointing out that the overwhelming response of Jews was nonviolent, but that when they did use violence they succeeded in inflicting significant damage to the nazi war machine and saving countless lives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs relevant today as when they first appeared, Churchill's and Ryan's trailblazing efforts were first published together in book form in 1998. Now, along with the preface to that volume by former participant in armed struggle\/political prisoner Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a powerful new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodríguez, these vitally important essays are being released in a fresh edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWard Churchill\u003c\/b\u003e is a member of Vietnam Veterans Against the War and of the elders council of the original Rainbow Coalition. Among his two dozen books are \u003ci\u003eAgents of Repression\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe COINTELPRO Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, both coauthored with Jim Vander Wall; \u003ci\u003eA Little Matter of Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eActs of Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eMichael Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e is a Montréal-based translator and copy editor. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, Ryan was active in Montréal's Marxist and antiauthoritarian left. \u003cb\u003eDylan Rodríguez\u003c\/b\u003e is professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside. He is the author of two books: \u003ci\u003eForced Passages\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSuspended Apocalypse\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eEd Mead\u003c\/b\u003e is a cofounder of Prison Legal News. His memoir \u003ci\u003eLumpen\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2015.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50361465536786,"sku":"9781629632247","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a91cd76d-7e6b-4a45-b4f4-7416d13bf3b9.jpg?v=1728372496","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america-9781629632247","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}