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Title: | Violent and non-violent approaches to revolution |
Author: | Hacker, Susan |
Year: | 1971 |
Periodical: | Mawazo |
Volume: | 3 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 1-11 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Portugal colonial territories South Africa |
Subject: | political action |
Abstract: | The adoption of violence or non-violence does not take place in a vacuum, but rather is part of a total definition of the situation. Within the dialectical situation of the revolutionary struggle itself, a second dialect is in process: that of the participants as they measure their ideas and actions against the relativistic, bat not arbitrary, experience of reality. This study is structured around two related avenues of enquiry. Firstly, their is a comparison of the theories of revolutionary action put forward by Ghandi and Fanon. Secondly, there is an examination of the testing out of these theories in specific areas of conflict: India between the wars. South Africa, and contemporary liberation struggles in Portugues Africa and in the USA. Notes. |