What COIN specialists promote is not nonviolence, its non-resistance. Non-violence is stuff like occupying buildings or shutting off pipelines. Non-resistance is harmless things like petitions and A to B marches.
I’d argue they also disseminate discouragement of resistant non-violence by calling non-violent resistance to repression violence, but more importantly they stall consensus by invoking the violence debate in critical situations.
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Counterinsurgency: Start a definitional debate about violence to disperse your enemy.
Seen this first hand what damage this can have, but I get why it is a thing (you don’t want politics turn into gang violence).
Hot take: Shouting no violence, while standing next to a brick-holding comrade is tactically compatible.
What COIN specialists promote is not nonviolence, its non-resistance. Non-violence is stuff like occupying buildings or shutting off pipelines. Non-resistance is harmless things like petitions and A to B marches.
I’d argue they also disseminate discouragement of resistant non-violence by calling non-violent resistance to repression violence, but more importantly they stall consensus by invoking the violence debate in critical situations.