Peter Gelderloos: As part of a disturbingly universal pattern, pacifists white out those other forms of resistance and help propagate the false history that Gandhi and his disciples were the lone masthead and rudder of Indian resistance. Ignored are important militant leaders such as Chandrasekhar Azad, who fought in armed struggle against the British colonizers, and revolutionaries such as Bhagat Singh, who won mass support for bombings and assassinations as part of a struggle to accomplish the ‘overthrow of both foreign and Indian capitalism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4146
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Peter Gelderloos: The liberation movement in India failed. The British were not forced to quit India. Rather, they chose to transfer the territory from direct colonial rule to neocolonial rule,” What kind of victory allows the losing side to dictate the time and manner of the victors’ ascendancy? The British authored the new constitution and turned power over to handpicked successors. They fanned the flames of religious and ethnic separatism so that India would be divided against itself, prevented from gaining peace and prosperity, and dependent on military aid and other support from Euro/American states.” India is still exploited by Euro/American corporations (though several new Indian corporations, mostly subsidiaries, have joined in the pillaging), and still provides resources and markets for the imperialist states. In many ways the poverty of its people has deepened and the exploitation has become more efficient. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4147
Peter Gelderloos: If the Palestinians hadn’t made the Israeli occupation and every successive aggression so costly, all the Palestinian land would be seized, except for a few reservations to hold the necessary number of surplus laborers to supplement the Israeli economy, and the Palestinians would be a distant memory in a long line of extinct peoples. Palestinian resistance, including suicide bombings, has helped ensure Palestinian survival against a far more powerful enemy. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4148
Peter Gelderloos: Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus, George Washington, and all the other genocidal butchers with sit-ins; that Crazy Horse, by using violent resistance, became part of the cycle of violence, and was “as bad as” Custer. Nonviolence declares that Africans could have stopped the slave trade with hunger strikes and petitions, and that those who mutinied were as bad as their captors; that mutiny, a form of violence, led to more violence, and, thus, resistance led to more enslavement. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4149
Peter Gelderloos: Pretending that all violence is the same is very convenient for supposedly anti-violence privileged people who benefit from the violence of the state and have much to lose from the violence of revolution. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4150
Benjamin Netanyahu: We own the Senate, the Congress, and we have a record-strong Jewish lobby on our side. We have a strong influence over the general support. America won’t force us into anything. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4151
Peter Gelderloos: Put simply, if a movement is not a threat, it cannot change a system based on centralized coercion and violence. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4152
Peter Gelderloos: The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one (…) About such campaigns, the FBI says, “It is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge….(D)isruption (through the media) can be accomplished without facts to back it up. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4153
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