- This comparative analysis of 65 quantitative studies reveals that nonviolent revolutions generally lead to more positive institutional outcomes than violent revolutions across domains like democracy, security forces, foreign relations, ethnicity, culture, and well-being.
- Nonviolent resistance movements are more likely to facilitate transitions from autocracy to democracy, improve democratic qualities like civil liberties, transform security forces and judicial systems in rights-respecting directions, and enhance well-being measures such as life expectancy.
Nonviolent revolutions generally produce better institutional outcomes than violent ones (it's science)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2452292924000365
9 Comments
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 16 pts · 29d
those who make nonviolent revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable
rimu@piefed.social · -1 pts · 29d
You don't know that a nonviolent revolution is impossible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_revolution
BussyGyatt@feddit.org · 3 pts · 28d
all that remains is to hope for an outbreak of western style democracy in america
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 28d
TIL that term exists outside of the tankie definition of "CIA-backed fake revolution".
badmancrooks@piefed.social · 11 pts · 29d
lame ass cop science.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 29d
Nice try science
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 29d
I mean it doesn't surprise me, militant leaders are more likely to be autocratic, whereas peaceful leaders are going to be better at inspiring a populace, adding those together you get the same results
inari@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 28d
If you think about the French Revolution, it was a disaster. It paved the way for Napoleon, a despot that undid a lot of what the revolutionaries fought for.
schmorpel@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 28d
Revolução dos Cravos anyone, Europe's favourite peaceful revolution? Yet another CIA op - and you can be damn sure that none of the small leftist parties had any say in anything after a brief period of a somewhat permissive chaos. After the dust had settled the US had another vassal state with a neat group of strategically placed islands in the Atlantic ocean, complete with a fake democracy and some native minions to run the whole thing.
Ever since I started keeping livestock I can't help but notice the similarities between livestock and citizens - the way you manage them, distract them, keep them contained without them noticing ... getting more cynical by the day. How do get through this invisible electric fence?