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on June 5, 2026, 11:51 pm, in reply to "Re: Change Agent: Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence (Part One)"
I only glanced at it. It's very long.
https://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/nvcritique/Brown2020.pdf
The second part of Marcie Smith's article is here:
https://nonsite.org/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-two/
In Blumenthal's interview she said there would be a third part. I doubt that it happened.
Here's a nice little quote from Marcie Smith in a Jacobin interview that seems to sum up her problem with Gene Sharp:
"when supposedly progressive forces triumph, but then conditions for the average person get worse – well that is doing the fascists’ work for them."
https://jacobin.com/2019/06/gene-sharp-cold-war-intellectual-marcie-smith
Here's "Getting Gene Sharp Wrong" by Smith on George Lakey taking umbrage at her Change Agent article.
https://jacobin.com/2019/12/gene-sharp-george-lakey-neoliberal-nonviolence
Finally, Lakey's umbrage
"Will the real Gene Sharp please step forward?"
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2019/07/gene-sharp-cold-war-intellectual-marcie-smith/
That's enough for any insane man to be getting on with.
Smith's message seems to be regarding reading Sharp - read but read with care.
Read loads once at a time when I didn't have a cautious bone in my body and was very impressed.
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