Such violence, albeit at a low level, could hardly be avoided given the movement’s scale and diversity, not to mention its refusal to sanction any disciplining leadership.
non-violent but principled law-breaking, it may be pointed out that from Spain to London, and from San Francisco to Zuccotti Park, there was sporadic violence. The philosopher Tony Milligan has tried to define civil disobedience right up to and including the Occupy Wall Street protests of 2011–2012, and concedes that the idealism of practicing civil disobedience, being a human endeavor, necessarily has failures: Even if we take a comparatively minimal view of what civil disobedience involves, i.e. Civil disobedience is a brave and necessarily lonely and outnumbered action.
In court or in public media, persuasion will be attempted again.
If civil disobedience results in its participants being arrested or attacked, no violence is returned. Then it attempts to persuade us that the law being disobeyed is unjust. What it does is prick our conscience to consider the morality of a particular law. IT’S HARDER TO say what civil disobedience is than what it does. Manufactured in the United States by RR Donnelley | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.Ĭlassification: LCC JC328.3. | BISAC: HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). Title: Essays on civil disobedience / edited by Bob Blaisdell.ĭescription: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 2016. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spelling inconsistencies and the like derive from the sources and have been retained for the sake of authenticity. Bob Blaisdell has selected the essays and provided the introductory Note and brief biographies. Copyright © 2016 by Dover Publications, Inc.Įssays on Civil Disobedience, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2016, is a new compilation of essays, reprinted from standard editions.
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