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Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill
How Non-Violence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos - PDF
Deacons For Defense are one of several groups of armed black Americans during the civil rights movement.
Orgasms of History
from riot to insurrection more of the theoretical side than history
See also: general strikes and the riots that accompanied them. The history of the labor movement, which is full of strikes that became riots. The timeline of the civil rights movement, in that it was only after the riots began that meaningful civil rights legislation began to be adopted, and even MLK knew that the only reason they were giving him a seat at the table after calling him a communist etc... was because of the riots forcing them to deal with the non-violent moderates of the movement and make concessions.
Now is an EXCELLENT time to question your dogmatic commitment to nonviolence.
May I suggest Peter Gelderloos' excellent How Nonviolence Protects the State?
Or, perhaps, Ward Churchill's Pacifism as Pathology?
I haven't read that book, but I have read : http://www.amazon.com/Pacifism-Pathology-Reflections-Struggle-America/dp/1904859186/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397312490&sr=1-1&keywords=pacifism+as+pathology
Same basic idea though. All those non-violent revolutions from ghandi to mlk were implicitly backed up by violence.
Great list! Regarding the question of violence, I would add How Nonviolence Protects the State and Pacifism as Pathology because your list seems a slightly one-sided.
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Also here is "Pacifism as a Pathology" from Ward Churchill
https://www.amazon.com/Pacifism-Pathology-Reflections-Struggle-America/dp/1904859186