> On Jan 28, 2026, at 08:52, David Walters via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lastly, at least in terms of the SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership > Conference), they were NOT pacifists. Their strategy was non-violance. But > they were heavily armedwith latest in military firearms, racked at their > headquarters in order to defend themselves in the face of the KKK. The great > book: This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights > Movement Possible by Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a must read when contemplating > this question of armed self-defense.
No one said that a tactic of nonviolent civil disobedience was pacifist. https://files.libcom.org/files/2022-04/Charles-Cobb-This-Nonviolent-Stuffll-Get-You-Killed.pdf and https://files.libcom.org/files/Robert%20Franklin%20Williams%20-%20Negroes%20with%20guns.pdf discuss armed self defense and the US Civil Rights Movement. The question is who are we arming against? It's not against ICE or other state forces at this conjuncture. As David wrote in the above-quoted note "If they did, at this point, they'd be wiped out/arrested/destroyed by far better organized forces of the State." KKK, Proud Boys, paramilitaries, and other non-state and state-adjacent forces are one thing, the US Marines are another. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40412): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40412 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117460647/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
