From Dictatorship to Democracy

from blake.rosser

This is an actual handbook on nonviolent resistance, which on the one hand makes it incredibly intriguing but on the other makes it rather boring, since it reads somewhat like an instruction manual. I presumed when I heard about the book that Sharp would include many references to real-life strug...

from WaltNoise

Sharp is a modern day combination of Gandhi and Machiavelli. While not a strict pacifist, Sharp makes the point that by picking up the gun, you have chosen to fight on the dictator's terms. Totalitarian regimes can usually muster much greater firepower than their subjects. Rifles against tanks is...

from jcbrunner

Gene Sharp offers the keen insight that if war is the continuation of politics with other means, then dictators bring the bigger sticks to the fight. Using violence against dictators is both a very bloody and often futile approach, as the chosen battlefield (violence) is a dictatorship's main sou...

from jcbrunner

Gene Sharp offers the keen insight that if war is the continuation of politics with other means, then dictators bring the bigger sticks to the fight. Using violence against dictators is both a very bloody and often futile approach, as the chosen battlefield (violence) is a dictatorship's main sou...