[yellow, a finger up, looking smug]
The answer to oppression is NEVER violence
Turn the other cheek
Pacifism always wins
You could earn rights by asking nicely instead
[yellow, proudly showing us a huge book]
Don’t believe me?
Open a history book!
[yellow, looking frustrated as they are shuffling through the book’s pages]
Ok so…
Uhm…
Not this page…
Wait…
The next one…
Awkward…
Another…
Yeah but…
For sure this time…
[yellow, sweating, protecting their book, a hand raised towards us]
Can you stop looking?
You’re being rude
That’s my book
https://thebad.website/comic/please_resist_responsibly
Well I’m french, in my country strikes are considered violent actions.
As is always the case, it’s the oppressors not the oppressed that set the level of violence.
You don’t get to decide whether your actions will be violent or not, it’s all about how the state will react to them. If they start sending riot police at you with orders to be as brutal as possible, legislating against your strikes, sending organizers to jail, killing some of your protesters, the non violent aspect might collapse quite fast. Or at least that’s what happens when we organize mass strikes or student protests in France, and we have a pretty big history of that :)
I understand, but I mean a different kind of pressure. Breaking the economy and letting it bleed. No need to agglomerate at places. The police would have nowhere to act. Invading people’s homes and forcing them to do things isn’t viable at large scale.
I don’t mean that any method is better or worse. I support all of them. However, we have the overlooked power to pressure by taking the economy at hostage by making a “consumption strike” or/and a general work strike. This power grows stronger the larger our economies become