This is completely wrong, idealistic, and ignores all of history, which shows that violence is nearly always required to overcome an oppressor.
The "victories of pacifism" are almost always used as propaganda to maintain the status quo.
- What about Pacifism / pacifist socialism? Is violence necessary to acheive socialism? What about Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi? audiobook
- Why not just vote leftists into office: what's wrong with democratic socialism?
- Is a bloodless revolution possible?
- "Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You need an audience. What can you do when you have no audience? People have the right to resist annihilation." - Arundhati Roy.
- What is imperialism?
- The CIA, Gene sharp, and it's pacifist color revolution regime change tactics.
- Regime Change Agent: Gene Sharp's liberal non-violence.
- Was the civil rights struggle in the US really nonviolent? Malcolm X - message to the grassroots.
- FBI cointel directives on "nonviolent" groups.
- Is a state really necessary to transition into communism?
- Engels - on authority.
- An Overview of Leninism, audiobook. Lenin - State and Revolution , audiobook
- Luxemburg - Reform or Revolution, audiobook