Richard Gregg was a powerful voice in the peace movement. He was a friend of Ghandi and a lovely person. This book reveals his heart. I recommend it to anyone who has ever wanted World Peace. Thank you, Amazon, for making it available.
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Gandhi's ideas applied to American Industry and peaceful protesting
Mr. Gregg's candid and thoroughgoing study deals not only with mere nonviolence but with nonviolent resistance, and if the title had included this keyword a much better idea of its content would've been given.Mr. Greg was a lawyer and a consultant in industrial relations. It was during the nationwide railway strike that he became interested in Gandhi's ideas. He went to India in 1925 to study the non-cooperation movement at first hand. This book is the fruit of that study, which kept him in India for nearly 4 years, in close contact with the Indian leader.Profoundly imbued with the in Eastern philosophy that made nonviolent mass resistance so successful in India, Mr. Gregg believes that it can be also successfully brought to bear in the West, in labor struggles as well as in civil and military disputes. He considers it in the light of biological, psychological, economic and ethical data and comes to the conclusion that while "violence might be somewhat efficient, just as the war as the Watts steam engine was somewhat efficient...Nonviolent resistance is more efficient just as a modern steam turbine is more efficient." He gives a number of authenticated instances of successful nonviolence to support this view.Mr. Gregg's contribution to the subject differs from any I have previously seen in being unsentimental, solidly documented an unusually open-minded in regard to the objections to his thesis. He does not show, however, that the method would be successfully applicable in the case of such mass lunacy as her Hitlerism or any extreme form of fascism, since it assumes an opponent who has the better nature to be appealed to and is capable of conversion. In cases of individual lunacy Mr. Greg himself points out that forcible or strength may be indicated. I also doubt that mass nonviolent resistance alone can bring about a just society, or that something more than resistance on labor support will not be needed to effect this change; but that such resistance can become one of labor's tools in the struggle seems to me possible and highly desirable. It is not, as Mr. Greg is fully aware, a panacea, but an effective social instrument.
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- Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2007
Gandhi's ideas applied to American Industry and peaceful protestingMr. Gregg's candid and thoroughgoing study deals not only with mere nonviolence but with nonviolent resistance, and if the title had included this keyword a much better idea of its content would've been given.
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2007
Mr. Greg was a lawyer and a consultant in industrial relations. It was during the nationwide railway strike that he became interested in Gandhi's ideas. He went to India in 1925 to study the non-cooperation movement at first hand. This book is the fruit of that study, which kept him in India for nearly 4 years, in close contact with the Indian leader.
Profoundly imbued with the in Eastern philosophy that made nonviolent mass resistance so successful in India, Mr. Gregg believes that it can be also successfully brought to bear in the West, in labor struggles as well as in civil and military disputes. He considers it in the light of biological, psychological, economic and ethical data and comes to the conclusion that while "violence might be somewhat efficient, just as the war as the Watts steam engine was somewhat efficient...Nonviolent resistance is more efficient just as a modern steam turbine is more efficient." He gives a number of authenticated instances of successful nonviolence to support this view.
Mr. Gregg's contribution to the subject differs from any I have previously seen in being unsentimental, solidly documented an unusually open-minded in regard to the objections to his thesis. He does not show, however, that the method would be successfully applicable in the case of such mass lunacy as her Hitlerism or any extreme form of fascism, since it assumes an opponent who has the better nature to be appealed to and is capable of conversion. In cases of individual lunacy Mr. Greg himself points out that forcible or strength may be indicated. I also doubt that mass nonviolent resistance alone can bring about a just society, or that something more than resistance on labor support will not be needed to effect this change; but that such resistance can become one of labor's tools in the struggle seems to me possible and highly desirable. It is not, as Mr. Greg is fully aware, a panacea, but an effective social instrument.
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