Or are they rather the “cowards,” those millions of subject-citizens who, though unwilling to risk their lives, engage in daily, small, yet fully conscious acts of subversion against a hated government, and slowly but surely undermine it from within, until its downfall? - ThreadSky

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amiesphilip.bsky.social • 8 hours ago

Or are they rather the “cowards,” those millions of subject-citizens who, though unwilling to risk their lives, engage in daily, small, yet fully conscious acts of subversion against a hated government, and slowly but surely undermine it from within, until its downfall?

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amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271346540_Weapons_of_the_Weak_or_The_Culture_of_Everyday_Resistance_to_Power_Relations

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Crimes such as poaching and incendiarism have been labelled by anthropologist James Scott as examples of ‘weapons of the weak’, covert actions that allow the powerless within a society to resist exploitation without having to resort to more overt deeds such as riot and rebellion.

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

https://www.history.org.uk/events/calendar/9183/rural-crime-and-protest-poaching-and-incendiaris

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Civil disobedience is in a real way a privileged position, with some dramatic exceptions, taken by those who have some sense of security. Most rebels are sneaky with good reason.

https://www.powercube.net/other-forms-of-power/scott-resistance/

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Those people who have chosen to use civil disobedience in the face of tyranny amaze me, my mother went on an anti-Nazi demo in Brussels after the invasion, they just shot students, she did not do it again, she did small acts of resistance, the postman did big acts in the resistance.

amiesphilip.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I don't think any of us should feel surprised if we do not have the almost unimaginable courage to put yourself so undefended within harm in a tyranny, I certainly do not, we can still resist in a multitude of more survivable ways which damage the regime.

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