GS232 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Salt March, Nonviolence, Utopia
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Non-violent action can be effective as social action better than violent action. Non-violence as a way to convert the opponent. There is no evidence for the moral consequence. Attackers in the salt march did not show regret. But bystander attention was attracted and this was the goal. Outrage of bystanders when witnessing unjust actions: non-violence needs to be the response to oppression, event needs to be transmitted to the relevant audience so the injustice. Steps to backfire: is perceived (webb miller in india during gandhi) Utopianism: value of peace conquers theory, methods and values. Peace is the right thing to believe in without questioning. If one is not met there is no peace. Sorensen argues that there is not one example of society that lives in this way. Contradiction: to increase welfare, industrialization must happen which leads to alienation. Rather than a utopian to the pursuit of peace, sorensen offers the constructivist approach.
