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> The problem with a police state is that state violence becomes a way to exercise political power. The historical evidence shows that countering a police stat
by throw0101c 3y ago
> The problem with a police state is that state violence becomes a way to exercise political power.
The historical evidence shows that countering a police state / authoritative government with violence/force is less effect than with non-violence:
* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44096650 https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44096650
Since 1900, if a movement used violence in their methods for change they had a success rate of 25%; movements with non-violence had success 40% of the time. Further, most movements who did use violence to have a 'change of government' were much more likely to end up with authoritative government.
- dchftcs 3y agoOther than the obvious confounding factors, I feel this has to have some cherry picking or selective interpretation of what is a non-violent movement. Almost always there's some non-violent action preceding a violent movement, the question is at which stage they get quashed, fail to become much bigger, and then people have to resort to violence.
- throw0101c 3y agoAll the incidents used in the count are in Appendix A, and are part of a publicly available database used by researchers in the field.