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David Dellinger by Andrew E. Hunt6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Hunt's substantial research, the book is fraught with flaws, many of them stemming from Hunt's own misunderstandings about the potential meaning and importance of both nonviolence and revolution in our turbulent times. With the just-released biography, David Dellinger: The Life and Times of a Nonviolent Revolutionary, the progressive movement is offered another opportunity to understand this sometimes complicated man and his vision. ![]() Nevertheless, they were favorites of lifelong radical pacifist Dave Dellinger, who not only used the phrase as the title of his first major book, but also saw in them the best definition of his often-criticized politics. Full of rhetoric and apparently contradictory meanings, those two words balanced against one another appear to confuse as many people as they inspire. The Life and Times of a Nonviolent RevolutionaryĪs catchphrases go, "revolutionary nonviolence" has not exactly caught the imagination of many activists. Revolutionary Nonviolence and the Critiquing of David Dellinger ![]()
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