The Left and the Debate Over Non-Violence: Lessons from the Occupy Crackdown
Submitted on November 17, 2011
By PATRICK MADDEN - Counterpunch
What is truly disconcerting...is that this demagoguery and rhetoric of violence/nonviolence has threatened the unity of the movement itself. There have been reports of anarchists being bullied out of occupy encampments, jeered-at and told to take off their masks, and...in a bizarre twist, even threatened with physical violence for not committing themselves to the utterly vacuous liberal ideology that protesters who vigorously defend themselves from police brutality, or smash a Bank of America window...are “violent” and therefore a threat to the movement.
