• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    The civil rights movement did not succeed because of Martin Luther King Jr’s peaceful speech, it succeeded because the Black Panthers bought a firearms en masse and took their rights.
    We didn’t win the revolutionary war because we asked nicely and protested peacefully, we won because we ignored the standards of chivalry in war at the time and fought like guerillas.
    Anyone who says violence isn’t the answer has never studied history.
    Violence is the only thing that’s ever worked.

    • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      14 days ago

      It was both, fellow worker.

      We need a diversity of tactics. The literature describes a “radical flank effect” where the radical and moderate wings of social movements mutually benefit.