When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the violence used to keep them down, we cannot sincerely condemn them for violently rebelling against the structural violence that privileges us.


Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007), 37.

Peter Gelderloos Quotes

When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the ...

When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the ...

When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the ...

When we understand that privileged people derive material benefits from the exploitation of oppressed people, and that this means we benefit from the ...