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> >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.
> >