{"id":59354,"date":"2023-06-15T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/produkt\/pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america-ward-churchillmichael-ryan\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:25:27","slug":"pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america-ward-churchillmichael-ryan","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/product\/pacifism-as-pathology-reflections-on-the-role-of-armed-struggle-in-north-america-ward-churchillmichael-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacifism as Pathology: Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America &#8211; Ward Churchill\/Michael Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pacifism as Pathology<\/em> has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay \u201cPacifism as Pathology\u201d was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill\u2019s frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing\u2014and deliberately self-neutralizing\u2014\u201dhegemony of nonviolence\u201d on the North American left. The essay\u2019s publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan\u2019s penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill\u2019s premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white \u201cprogressives,\u201d is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents\u2019 desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power.<\/p>\n<p>This short book challenges the pacifist movement\u2019s heralded victories\u2014Gandhi in India, 1960s antiwar activists, even Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s civil rights movement\u2014suggesting 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.<\/p>\n<p>As relevant today as when they first appeared, Churchill\u2019s and Ryan\u2019s 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 Rodr\u00edguez, these vitally important essays are being released in a fresh edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Published: 3\/2017 | Format: Paperback | Page count: 192<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":59352,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[49],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-59354","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-books","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/59354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=59354"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=59354"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fireandflames.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=59354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}