Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay Pacifism as Pathology was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchills frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing--and deliberately self-neutralizing---hegemony of nonviolence- on the North American left. The essays publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryans penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchills premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white -progressives, - is inherently counterrevolutionary. This book challenges the pacifist movements heralded victories, suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Along with a preface by Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodriguez, these essays are being released in a fresh edition.