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    THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE

    Aug 04, 2020 3 minutes
    BY MARK GRIMSLEY

    WE THINK OF POWER as something that originates with the high and mighty, cowing the rest of us into submission. But this view overlooks a central point: a person is only as powerful as those who obey him. Strip away obedience and he falls. This argument was forcefully made by the late Gene Sharp (1928-2018), an American political scientist known as “the Clausewitz of nonviolent warfare.”

    Dictatorships, Sharp posits, have inherent weaknesses that can be exploited

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