Zizek on Havel

[Carl Remick]

>In *this* economy (a 'developed,' industrial, service
>oriented, consumerist economy) - nonviolence isn't a
>choice, it's the *only* possible means for successful
>social, political, and economic change.  If you bring a gun
>to the table, someone else will bring a tank, you bring a
>tank, they bring a fighter plane.  If you want to talk
>about pacifism being anti-humanist, go right ahead, but
>take a look at the civil rights movements in the U.S. first.
>
>No amount of swords or guns will ever be able to overturn
>an economy that forges them.  The target is econcomic
>organization.  This requires nonviolent resistance.
>Violence stopped being a successful form of resistance for
>the poor when someone invented the machine gun.
>
>ken

Hear, hear!  Very well put.

Carl

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