Violent Uprising of The Oppressed

I promote not violence and aggression nor passivity but a third way. I promote and condone resistance. Resistance is not limited to violence. When I preach non-violence it is not a way to submit to the state but a way to stick to my ethical stance against the formation of society through violence and oppression. I promote resistance, I condone resistance. I promote a third way. Not through guns and warfare, not through submission and passivity but through offensive and defensive non-violent action. This will bring conflict. As we grow through education and build in numbers these actions will have a larger and larger impact. Gene Sharp’s list of 198 Methods of Non-Violent Protest and Persuasion can help to get a few ideas for action and resistance.

The way to achieve a just society is not through the methods of the state, corporations or existing power structures. We must work against the existing hierarchy and rule of the day. Those who sit at home 364 days a year being fed corporate media submitting to the system believing they have acted because that one day they went to a poll to vote for rulers who maintain the new order have not acted to change or improve the world. At the same time I realize many are most concerned about meeting their basic needs while living in an unjust, oppressive, murderous system. To oppose this system is to risk our basic freedoms and liberties which may be taken by the violent force of the existing rule.

While I do not condone violent action as our tactic, I will not condemn those who have been violently oppressed if they have taken violent action against their oppressors. I stand in solidarity with the people, the poor and oppressed.