"MLK and gandhi! nonviolence only!" is a basic bitch opinion but so is framing violent radicals as minor players in their inevitable victory
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Replying to @alicemazzy
it is true that MLK/gandhi benefitted from climate of extremism, could position themselves as a compromise between The Old Ways and anarchy
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but this is cherrypicking examples where the relative moderates won. compare to mensheviks vs bolsheviks, or girondins vs montagnards
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there is no design, course, or purpose to history, only the doings of men and god
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it is a common topic of argument on the center to middle left whenever any kind of protest comes up, "nonviolence" vs "diversity of tactics"
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but it presupposes whig view of history. reform-oriented types debating whether their problem children are liabilities or necessary foils
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(the argument I'm making is often made on the far left except their conclusion is "that's why we're the good guys")
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there are things you do and things that happen and within those classes of events any are possible to any end
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