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Direct Action
James Tracy
其他書名
Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven
出版University of Chicago Press, 1996-09-15
主題Biography & Autobiography / Social ActivistsHistory / GeneralHistory / United States / 20th CenturyHistory / Social HistoryPolitical Science / American Government / NationalPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & LiberalismPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / RadicalismPolitical Science / Political Process / Political AdvocacyPsychology / GeneralSocial Science / Violence in Society
ISBN02268112719780226811277
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iMG34fB0g1IC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Direct Action tells the story of how a small group of "radical pacifists"—nonviolent activists such as David Dellinger, Staughton Lynd, A.J. Muste, and Bayard Rustin—played a major role in the rebirth of American radicalism and social protest in the 1950s and 1960s. Coming together in the camps and prisons where conscientious objectors were placed during World War II, radical pacifists developed an experimental protest style that emphasized media-savvy, symbolic confrontation with institutions deemed oppressive. Due to their tactical commitment to nonviolent direct action, they became the principal interpreters of Gandhism on the American Left, and indelibly stamped postwar America with their methods and ethos. Genealogies of the Civil Rights, antiwar, and antinuclear movements in this period are incomplete without understanding the history of radical pacifism.

Taking us through the Vietnam war protests, this detailed treatment of radical pacifism reveals the strengths and limitations of American individualism in the modern era.