Comment on: Re: Should people/groups resort to violence to solve social and economic problem

Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:40:11 +0100

But consider, for example, El Salvador in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The U.S. was spending millions of dollars training and aiding a genocidal right-wing military regime, helping them murder, rape and smear religious missionaries, leftist dissenters and other citizens who had nearly attained democracy in El Salvador previous to U.S. involvement. In cases like this, anything short of violent resistance is pointless, thousands were killed just for suspicion of dissent without cause.

Even members of unions in American corporate facilities in third-world countries are often kidnapped and murdered, so it's not only military occupation that has a tendency to choke dissent with violence.

Is there any viable option in these cases besides violent resistance?

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