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0hannah0banana0's review against another edition
5.0
Easily one of the best reads I got to enjoy this year.
The chapters were very helpful to reflect one’s understanding of activism and violence.
Also -and I mean this in the most positive way- the author is quite c*nty in how arguments were phrased which made it even more fun to read (definitely lightened the mood around a lot of real life examples)
Already purchased a second copy for a friend
The chapters were very helpful to reflect one’s understanding of activism and violence.
Also -and I mean this in the most positive way- the author is quite c*nty in how arguments were phrased which made it even more fun to read (definitely lightened the mood around a lot of real life examples)
Already purchased a second copy for a friend
brynalexa's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
Very dense and repetitive at times but that helped drive home the arguments. Overall a very useful resource for debate among activists and evidence for militant actions.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Confinement, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Police brutality, Grief, Colonisation, and War
Minor: Animal cruelty, Genocide, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Deportation
anajonessy's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence and Forced institutionalization
crickets's review against another edition
5.0
This book is easy to read and offers many interesting points to look into. I read it around the same time as "The Force of Nonviolence", by Judith Butler. Going through the wide range of ideas contained in both books was a very interesting exercise!
nerdofdoom's review against another edition
5.0
"He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...to him no disilusionment was ever greater or more sudden. it struck him with such violence that he thought himself no longer the same man. And yet, as it seems to him, that in this state of hatred his conciense bceomes diminished, he dedicates these pages, with emotion, to the man he used to be" - Emile Verhaeran, A Belgian writing after witnessing the German invasion and ransacking of his country in August of 1918.
"pacifism simply does not resonate in the reality of peoples everyday lives, unless those people live in some extravagent bubble of tranquility, from which all forms of civilizations pandemic reactive violence have been pushed out by the systematic and less visible violence of police and military forces." - Peter Gelderloos.
"pacifism simply does not resonate in the reality of peoples everyday lives, unless those people live in some extravagent bubble of tranquility, from which all forms of civilizations pandemic reactive violence have been pushed out by the systematic and less visible violence of police and military forces." - Peter Gelderloos.