Non Violent Revolutions

Violent revolutions have been the most effective way to bring about change dating back to the American Revolution in the late 1700s. While analyzing this ferocious rebellion, it is revealed that all of the American’s non-violent attempts to compromise with Britain failed, and that it took a bloody eight year war for the Americans to finally separate from Britain. Violent revolutions are not only more effective, but easier to pull off. The Iranian government was a well known institution that used fear to prevent successful non-violent revolutions from happening, by executing innocent kids who spoke up against the government. “Between 1980 and 1983, the government had imprisoned and executed so many high-school and college students that we no
Violence against violence is only the most logical way to expel overpowering executives. Government has used brutality to keep their citizens “in check” since the beginning of time. Violence is natural to humans. Humanity has always known this concept of cruelty and it is impossible to avoid. Karl Peter Heinzen was a notable author who wrote a pamphlet advocating violent revolutions. The pamphlet emphasized the use of violence to allow change in government. Avoiding the use of cruelty and barbarity will result in avoiding a future where real change is enabled everywhere in society (Heinzen 10). The reality is humanity is shaped by brute force. By avoiding violence, the citizens are avoiding a different and better future. Violent revolutions should be considered legitimate because totalitarian governments are allowed to get away with “legal” murder everyday. The inhabitants are just guarding themselves from the ferocious regimes. Karl Heinzen’s pamphlet also argues the legitimacy of violent revolutions. “It was my object to vindicate not only the aims of revolution, but also its means, including assassination and to render it as legitimate as the tyrants have done with their murder by war, their ‘legal’ murder, their murder by ‘court-martial’” (Heinzen 12). Violent governments have always used “legal” murder to control their citizens. The
That is understandable, but, the reality is, small nonviolent groups can easily be stopped and dismissed in the media. For example, during the Arab Spring in 2011, the 6 April Organization from Egypt, was arrested in the city of Alexandria because law enforcement felt their singing of the national anthem would provoke trouble (Soueif 74-76). Ultimately, nonviolent protests are too easy to be brushed aside by top officials, which hinders their effectiveness. It is clear that violent revolutions are more effective than non-violent revolutions because the fear the revolution causes sparks change, should be seen as a self-defense mechanism against governments, and creates a sense of unity between the