re: #420 Alexzander

Not the contemporary inssurectionary culture.
See for example, Peter Gelderloos’ modern anarchist classic, How Nonviolence Protects the State.

Blanket nonviolence is more a squishy liberal/hippy orientation.

I see Gelderloos’s book is favorably reviewed by Ward Churchill, author of Pacifism as Pathology.

I think there is more to a philosophy of non-violent direct action than “a squishy liberal/hippy orientation”, although you may have dodged the finer points by saying “blanket nonviolence”. Strategies and tactics need to be constantly scrutinized and updated, but I don’t think nonviolence needs to be thrown out.