![]() ![]() Nonviolence is maintained as an article of faith, and as a key to full inclusion within the movement. But the facilitator, who was also a conference organizer, and on top of that a panelist, decided against this approach.īecause of the hegemony advocates of nonviolence exert, criticisms of nonviolence are excluded from the major periodicals, alternative media, and other forums accessed by anti-authoritarians. I had hoped that each panelist would be given a substantial amount of time to speak in order to present our ideas in depth and to limit the likely alternative of a back-and-forth volley of clichéd arguments. Predictably, the discussion turned into an unproductive and competitive debate. In August 2004, at the North American Anarchist Convergence in Athens, Ohio, I participated in a panel discussing the topic of nonviolence versus violence. ![]()
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