Grasp Power Of Nonviolence Conceived By Richard B. Gregg Text

is a great starting place for people looking to learn about nonviolence, I learned a lot and would recommend this book to others, I was hopeful but could not finish this, Huge clouds of totally convinced conjecture, Give me better case studies and interviews instead of Greggs Thoughts, Small thing, I believe, to ask when youre suggesting people offer their skulls for caving in over the course of what takes, in some cases, decades or more.


Id have to be a monster to rate it one star, right The queston is often asked: 'What can I do right now to promote peace' Richard Gregg's answer: "The only way to improve the future is to improve the present by using a sound method, and keep on applying that method day after day.
" p.He provides a thorough account of what that method of nonviolent persuasion looks like, a method that will "by its application, bring about a more just, finer and happier world.
" In sum, your questions about how to strengthen the peace movement are answered herein,

The book deserves a wider readership,

As to the editor's introduction or the summary he provides of it in his laterlecture based on the same, delivered at Colorado College, the crux of the matter is that the movement went astray, in the last quarter of theth century: "when most people think of nonviolence since the rise of techniquebased instrumental tactics with Gene Sharp and others since thes they think of episodic techniques of nonviolent resistance or direct action to strike, boycott, noncooperate, protest, and so on, to overthrow an unjust powerholder, to change a law, to force opponents to the negotiating table, and so on rather than a much larger ground or permaculture of nonviolent power relations that provide the basis and animacy of these techniques.
"lecture, p.emphasis added, in italics By introducing the idea of permaculture as a metaphor for what's needed, Tully suggests that people could benefit from an important corrective, by a return to the sources of inspiration for the nonviolent life, that always intended a much larger project of "gradual, intergenerational transformation"lecture, p.
. Hence, the importance of Gregg's book, especially the long chapter on "Persuasion", added in theedition, and included in all editions published since,
Or, as Tully puts it in the introduction, there is a major distinction drawn by Gandhi between satyagraha and what he called duragraha, the latter term meaning unethical civil resistance intro, p.
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or, being disposed to enmity, p, xxxviii, which only serves to reproduce the dominant, destructive, or oppressive assumptions and attitudes, in the long run, That is, there is no "quick fix", and we should therefore be sceptical of those pretending to offer simplistic solutions or formulas, The problem is a master/slave dialectic, a kind of either/or: "With duragraha, individuals and groups allow the emotional propulsion of fear and anger to disconnect, alienate themselves from, and override the background relationships of mutual trust, define themselves as separate, and evince an aggressive or submissive attitude of distrust and enmity towards others.
" intro, pp. xxxviiixxxixemphasis added, in italics In order to avoid the selfdefeating "often involuntary movement" p, xxxix of duragraha, the peace movement should go "back to the sources" and try updating the original insights, like those provided by Richard Gregg, to make them more psychologically real for the situation today.
By delving into and developing its own ethos, the peace movement would be better able to engage effectively not only with given opponents, but more generally with the more widespread problem of a sickif not psychoticcivilization, one that threatens to force us all into a corner, or lead us into a dead end, current trends leading either "to extermination by war or civilizational collapse.
" intro, p. xxxix

Available online, a PDF of Tully's Marchst,lecture: sitelink uvic. ca/socialsciences/po The idea of nonviolence passiveresistance has always seemed beautiful but too good to be true, As a practical proposition it arouses scepticism and ridicule, But Mr Gregg is strangely convincing, He marshals the whole weight of contemporary knowledge,and uses the experience of Gandhi,who has employed nonviolence methods on a wider scale and with greater success than any other figure in history.
Nonviolent resistance is the doctrine of absolute pacificism, In theory, it recognizes no use of violence as legitimate in practice it includes all human relations,national and social as well as individual.
Contents Include Modern Examples of NonViolent Resistance Moral JiuJitsu What Happens Utilising Emotional Energy How is Mass NonViolent Resistance An Effective Substitute for War The Class Struggle and NonViolent Resistance NonViolence and the State Further Political Aspects Biological Considerations Doubts and Queries Preperation for NonViolence Further Understanding Self Discipline Group Training and Discipline Notes by Chapters.