Subject: (5) from THE RADICALS AND NONVIOLENCE
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THE ARSENAL OF NONVIOLENCE
by Marco Pannella
[...] Why on earth should the worker's strike be a democratic, legal, and
effective weapon, and not for example the taxpayer's refusal to pay taxes,
the consumer's refusal to make purchases, the refusal to pay for public or
private services that are not accessible or not provided, the citizen's
refusal to vote, or general strikes by a community whose independence and
existence is threatened?
The refusal to pay the whole fare for a journey, the whole rent, the local
taxes because the "City" does not provide essential services, the taxes
corresponding to the budget for "national defence", which serves to be
spied on, discriminated against, and murdered, is all this a crime?
Probably. Then take us to court, one by one. Despite the judicial system of
the regime, it will be a chance to seek the truth and the responsibility
for these situations.
The arsenal of nonviolence has barely been explored. The scientific use of
bourgeois legality exposes its fundamental contradiction: that between
ideals which only the proletarian or proletarianized "third state" can now
gather and uphold, and the power which the interclass bourgeois parties
exercise as turn-coats, in the opposite direction, in order to protect it.
Disobeying unjust orders, violating unconstitutional law as a provocation,
raising conscientious objections to requests for morally intolerable
behaviour, administrating freely and responsibly the social, economic and
political areas in which we live, and imagining a nonviolent, lay,
libertarian society, Socialist in methods and means: so far these have been
the weapons of defence and attack of the Radical minorities.
September 1974
