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"That violence is the basic tool of power is a distorted view of history," says Gene Sharp, D. Phil, whose 1000-page book, "Politics of Nonviolent Action" has just been published by Porter Sargent Publishers, Boston.
Sharp sees nonviolent techniques as a practical way to struggle, and the basic means citizens have of regaining control over a government where a military has seized control.
Sharp describes, with historical examples, 198 specific methods of the nonviolent technique.
He says the nonviolent technique has been used to the "destruction of empires and the dissoluation of dictators," and that, as an historian of nonviolence, he is "just scratching the surface."
The history of militarism has been told and re-told, but the history of non-violence remains largely undiscussed.
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