In this situation, the most rational choice is to do everything possible to stay in power. There are many great resources that answer this question, but the one that’s been on my mind lately is the global nonviolent action database, or gnad, built by the peace studies department at swarthmore college. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor.
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The politics of us and them, and also of how propaganda works, joins david to discuss authoritarianism, propaganda,.
Joining a political movement in an authoritarian country can subject participants to hostility and even violence, not just from the regime but from fellow citizens.
On this month’s podcast episode we talk with george about those cases, and the nonviolent database he has helped to assemble which shows 39 recent cases of countries whose people nonviolently overthrew a dictator.
