Silly Little Country

Sunday Edition and Mark Kurlansky

I will have nicer things to say about CBC's "Sunday Edition" again but Oliver Kamm has made a post that lets me simply say what a shabby piece of argument that occasionally excellent radio show produced in an essentially fawning interview with Mark Kurlansky on his new book on nonviolence. It seems obvious to me we have ample evidence that for nonviolent opposition to have an impact, there need to be special conditions. When those conditions do not obtain, it is an utter mess (an invitation to a quiet slaughter of the opposition).
Kurlansky's historical and mental gyrations to pretend the opposite are what fouled the CBC discussion I heard.
Kamm describes them very well here.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 3:00 PM