Essay #90: Alex Christoyannopoulos, ‘Anarchist Qualms with Pacifism and Nonviolence: Accusations and Rejoinders’
Anarchist Essays30 Syys 2024

Essay #90: Alex Christoyannopoulos, ‘Anarchist Qualms with Pacifism and Nonviolence: Accusations and Rejoinders’

In this essay, Alex Christoyannopoulos maps out and discusses the main qualms aired by anarchists about pacifism and nonviolence (around effectiveness, origins and compromises, and dogmatic censorship). He also fleshes out a rejoinder for each, and reflects on the mutual resonances and overlaps between the two.

Alex Christoyannopoulos is Reader in Politics and International Relations at Loughborough University. His most recent publications include a contribution to a forum debate on Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline, a paper articulating an anarcho-pacifist reading of international relations, as well as two pieces he mentions in this essay: a longer paper mapping out the tensions and similarities between anarchism and pacifism, and the editorial to the founding issue of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. A fuller list of his publications is available on his website.

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