A Comparison of Practical and Principled Nonviolent Action Theories Ess

A Comparison of Practical and Principled Nonviolent Action Theories insane asylumThe phrase nonviolent action brings to mind a wide modification of sometimes conflicting images. The image of a Chinese student at Tiananmen Square standing in the way of a tank was represent around the world, along with the stories of those who were shot and run over by those tanks. Indian participants pressed forward undauntedly in columns and then in groups to the salt memory at Dharasana while being beaten back with clubs by natural law forces who were infuriated by the nonresistance of the people. Individual Danes sneaked onto the Nazi occupied airfields at nighttime to sabotage their own planes to prevent them from being used against the Allies and the Danish people. Polish workers during the Solidarity movement refused to vote even though it was illegal and succeeded in preventing the election of unwanted single ticket politicians. Though widely varied, these images all(prenominal) accurate ly represent nonviolent social metamorphose movements of the last century. devil theories have dominated the recorded history of the nonviolent social change movement as motivation for keeping the movements nonviolent pragmatism and principle. A pragmatic approach has led to what is called practical nonviolent action--action based all on the lack of violent options or on the direct cogency of nonviolence. Action based on a theory of moral, ethical, or ghostlike principles is known as principled nonviolent action. Both theories have do successful campaigns and both have spawned actions in which the goals of the movement were not accomplished. A number of authors in recent years have carefully examined and provide both theories along with the case studies of moveme... ... 1989.Douglas, James. Lightning East to West Jesus, Gandhi, and the nuclear age. brisk York Crossroad, 1983.Gandhi, Mahatma K. Satyagraha. Ahmedabad Navajivan Publishing House 1958.King, Mary. Mahatma Gandhi a nd Martin Luther King Jr The advocate of Nonviolent Action. Paris UNESCO Publishing, 1999. Powers, . Protest, Power and Change. Roberts, Adam. Civilian Resistance as National Defense. Schell, Orville. Children of Tiananmen. Rolling Stone. December 14-28, 1989 185-8+.Sharp, Gene. The political relation of Nonviolent Action volume 1. Boston P. Sargen, 1973. Touraine, Alain. Solidarity The Analysis of a neighborly Movement. New York Cambridge University Press, 1983.Walesa, Lech. A Way of Hope. New York H. Holt, 1987.Yi, Mu. Crisis at Tiananmen Reform and truth in Modern China. San Francisco, CA China Books & Periodicals, c1989