Re: CHAT: pacifism

Quoting "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> >J Y S Czhang scripsit:
> > >     I don't think Goodman, Le Guin, Chomsky & LaoTzu * would like being
> > > called "militant" or associated with any form of "militancy." They
> > > are most vocal about being "pacifist."
> >
> > Google shows the phrase "militant pacifism" gets about 250 hits, mostly
> > associated with Albert Einstein, who clearly belongs on the list.
>
> I dunno about that.  Einstein was clearly a pacifist, but he was
> nowhere near as militant as Chomsky.  Einstein genuinely thought
> becoming involved in WWII was a less bad option than allowing Hitler
> to kill tens of millions of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs and other
> Europeans who happened to be in the way.  Chomsky, by comparison,
> to my knowledge has never not condemned any war, whatever the motives.
Can't think of any well-known example, but I've run across pacifists who do
not only condemn wars of conquest, preemptive attacks, armed humanitarian
interventions and the like, but also any form of violent self-defense.
Chomksy, IIRC, doesn't take quite a so extreme position?

                                                          Andreas

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