First of Matthew's two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent resistance with and without force, unarmed violence and property damage, and armed violence are so incredibly hard to talk about in a culture thick with spiritual and political bypassing. Are we capable of understanding the difference between morality and strategy?

Part 1 focuses on philosophy and psychology while Part 2 focuses on definitions and tactics. Together, both parts will push back on conspiracism about the identities, motives, and methods  of antifascists. Both will present slices of the rich discourse on violence and non-violence from antifascist history, including clarifying definitions of key terms. Both will open a space to think carefully about what intensities of self and community defense are both useful and tolerable in the fight against fascism. 

Part 2 gets into the very thick weeds of how the “strategic nonviolence” research of Gene Sharp, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan is framed as empirical, but may be way more about idealizing Gandhi than about facts on the ground. Drops Monday on Patreon.

Huge list of references for each!

Show Notes

Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term | The New Yorker

What the FBI Has Done, and Kash Patel Could Do - Columbia Journalism Review 

Hakeem Jeffries cracks down on Trump speech disruptions 

Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched—You Can Thank the Black Bloc | The Nation 

Aamer Rahman: Is it really ok to punch nazis? 

$16.5M settlement reached in class-action lawsuit over mass arrests during 2010 G20 summit | CBC News 

Meditations at the ringed fence around G20 Toronto - rabble.ca 

Remaining Human: A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street - Michael Stone 

Brief: The Outside Agitator Conspiracy Trope (w/Dr. Peniel Joseph) — Conspirituality 

Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years | Donald Trump | The Guardian 

40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Sunshine 

rules for radicals | saul d. alinsky 

198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION | — Gene Sharp

She Interrupted a Town-Hall Meeting and Was Dragged Out by Private Security - The New York Times 

Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood 

The Enigma of Frantz Fanon | The Nation

Frantz Fanon and the struggle against colonisation | MR Online

Frantz Fanon and the Paradox of Anticolonial Violence – Solidarity

Frantz Fanon—a vital defence of violence by the oppressed - Socialist Worker

Land and Freedom (1995 Ken Loach) [ENG Sub] (starting at the collectivization debate scene) 

Full Spectrum Resistance — McBay 

The Failure of Nonviolence | The Anarchist Library 

Beyond Violence and Nonviolence | ROAR Magazine 

Debunking the myths around nonviolent resistance | ROAR Magazine 

Social movements and the (mis)use of research: Extinction Rebellion and the 3.5% rule 

Responding to Domestic Terrorism: A Crisis of Legitimacy - Harvard Law Review 

Domestic Terrorism: Definitions, Terminology, and Methodology — FBI 

676 | United States Sentencing Commission

Activists use 'Tesla Takedown' protests to fight job cuts by Musk and Trump | Reuters

Tesla vehicles destroyed, vandalized since Musk began role at White House, authorities say - ABC News

Anti-DOGE protests at Tesla stores target Elon Musk's bottom line | AP News

Tyre Extinguishers: A Night Out with the Climate Activists Sabotaging SUVs

Leaflet | Tyre Extinguishers 

Tesla Stocks Tumble as Elon Musk’s Political Role Grows More Divisive - The New York Times

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency 

Beyond Violence and Nonviolence | ROAR Magazine 

Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance | The New Republic 

Why Not Riot? Interview with Author Ben Case - CounterPunch.org

10 Lessons on Filmmaking from Director Ken Loach

BBC Taster - How to Make a Ken Loach Film

Land and Freedom (1995 Ken Loach) [ENG Sub]

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