Pacifism

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• 3/19/2023
  

  When World War II Pacifists "Conquered the Future"

  by Eric Laursen

  Daniel Akst profiles the pacifists who opposed American involvement in the Second World War and their influence on the civil rights and peace movements that followed. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/11/2023
  

  Will Ukraine Be the Death of German Pacifism?

  by Stephen Milder

  The real transformation wrought in Europe by the Russian invasion isn't the return of war (which was certainly present in the 1990s) but the turn of Germany away from a post-fascist pacifist posture to a potential remilitarization. 

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• 4/3/2022
  

  Who Speaks for the World when Great Powers Flex Their Muscle?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  "Are the people of the world condemned to live forever under the heels of the great powers?  Or is it still possible to take another step along the road to a peaceful, humane planet?"

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• 3/13/2022
  

  Ukraine Shows We Need to Learn the History of Peace Movements to Break The Habit of War

  by Charles F. Howlett

  The history of peace movements, as opposed to fleeting opposition to particular wars, is needed today as never before. 

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• SOURCE: JStor Daily
  9/30/2021
  

  Masculinity, Pacifism and Politics: Abolitionist Parker Pillsbury

  "Pillsbury and other Garrisonians despised the romanticization of male violence, perhaps partly because they were on the receiving end of so much of it. They derided white southern men as drunkards with a tendency to use harsh violence against both enslaved people and white women."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/13/2020
  

  Trump’s Doubts about the Military have Deep Roots in Both Parties

  by Michael Kazin

  Recent media discussions of Trump's remarks about war veterans and indifference to visiting a World War I memorial should prompt deeper thought about the antiwar movements of the right and left that the Great War created. Opposition to war can be rooted in very different values and advance different ends.

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• 9-2-14
  

  Review of “Antiwar Dissent and Peace Action in World War I America,” Edited by Scott H. Bennett and Charles F. Howlett

  by Murray Polner

  Every generation needs to be reminded of and taught the heavy price exacted by war.