In an article by Mark Boyle, he argues that it is of great importance rewilding the political landscape. Mark continues by opposing In in In an article by Mark Boyle he argues that it is of great importance rewilding the political landscape. Mark continues by opposing mindless nonviolence protest terming it as pointless. The author does not like how modern society has taught us to believe that violence is evil. Though it might appear laudable in all angles, it’s however vital in our current environment. According to Mark, we opt to adopt nonviolence approaches in addressing the major ecological and social injustices in a world which is already violent. He views the nonviolence revolution approach as impotent in spite of having a good intention because, in the end, it results in defeat. The author goes ahead and backs Nelson Mandela the Nobel price peace winner who once referred nonviolence as more of a strategy and not a moral principle as no moral goodness is associated with the application of impotent weapons. Marks views the way which most individuals in the west lives’ their lives as violent.The author argues that we are living in a modern form of slavery where we fly, tend to overconsume, make sales from the expensive shops which threaten our ecological support system.According to Mark, the corporate sector has continued being stronger since 1960 irrespective of the adoption of activism. By consuming meat from violent factories that extremely harm vulnerable animals we also promote violence. According to Mark, we live in a world where the violent are seen as those putting efforts to expose and condemn the tyrants who are destroying our ancient woodland for the sake of obtaining cheap furniture. On the other hand, flying to India for a retreat is viewed as non-violent which is untrue from the nature perspective.
Gandhi support nonviolence protest where he believes it is okay to be against the unjust mighty kingdom at the expense of others. In his sayings, Gandhi argues that being nonviolent is far more courageous, challenging and more difficult than being violent making it a more direct tool. Gandhi argues that he would rather lay a foundation and watch such an empire and its entire generation fall and maintain his integrity, protect what he believes in and have his soul set free. According to Gandhi, Nonviolence does not reflect timid submission to the evil does intentions but reflects the willingness of sacrificing one’s soul in saving others from the hands of the oppressor. However Gandhi does not believe in violence, he argues that it only seems to bring good which is just temporally but in the long last its negative impacts are permanent. Based on the works collected from Mahatma Gandhi, violence is as a result of seven mistakes committed by the human society which includes; knowledge minus character, commerce with no morality, wealth acquired without working, worship without sacrifice, science minus humanity, pleasure with no conscience as well as unprincipled politics. Gandhi believes that truth can never be become a mistake due to the aspect of it not be seen by someone nor a mistake change to being truth due to many propaganda, instead, the truth will always remain as it sustains itself. In contrary Che Guevara believe in violent protest.Chie advocated for revolutionary violence as he believed it could be mobilized in order to achieve important ideological objectives such as ‘new man’ creation, values purifications as well as emergency o a new morality. Che makes it clear that there is a situation that calls for violence while some do not really require violence. He advises rebels to refrain applying violence in some circumstances such as ethical considerations and when under attitude based constituting actions wisely calculated with the aim of gaining a particular military end.
I absolutely agree with mark on his remarks that, non-violence protest is pointless.Such protests are actually a waste of time and energy since we end up losing miserably. Instead, we should draw our focus away from petitioning and demonstrating and focus on other things to better ourselves. It is not possible to petition against a kingdom or demonstrating against it. In some cases, they may give us a taste of what we want which often blindfolds us while they focus on safeguarding their positions. Take a case of the March anti-Iraq war and the millions of people who participated. I feel like it would have worked if such minds invested their time in learning how they would apply open source software which would promote open government mechanism or probably sourcing their income from the national banks to their local credit unions.
It is impossible to destroy capitalism through non-violence revolution. The only option to free our society is through a violent revolution. One can choose to embrace all kinds of non-violence approaches but in the end, will have no choice left other than fighting back in defense or proclaim defeat. The last state’s employee is said to be the soldier and not the bureaucrat. Just as in the failed states, the empire is only able to retain its pursuit of war through destruction once everything else has vanished. Destruction processes and in particular of all resistant communities who were against capitalism was the approach used by corporate capitalism to become into being. All the third parties that made up the pre-capitalist social order were either incorporated or destroyed to nothing having only the voters and consumers left. Regardless of the options people take on their fight for liberty be it nonviolence or violence protest of most important is what is built in their struggle of taking down the monster.
The only option of replacing capitalism is adopting the processes of building new resistance communities. It’s quite disappointing having self-righteous individuals out there who believe war and violence as an unjustifiable way and always settle for peaceful means which are much of the satisfactory of their cruel leaders. On the other hand, other believes in taking action lest they do nothing when the time comes. The only way to fix modern capitalism is coming up with a strategy of fixing the closed Ming vase society in a manner that every single move it makes will challenge the world. It’s easier to identify a resistance community because the empire often turns all its power towards such community destruction. Once the states take most of the militant community down, it then gets deeper in their veins to reach out on the small hopes they are left with or even take autonomy measures. Unless people rise up and stand against the hierarchical society which reduces and divides a determined society in pursuit of liberty, the process of social desertification will continue. The only way to get close to building a new society foundation is making hard decisions of raising hands in defense with the only remaining task being laying strategies on how we should begin building.