The following except is taken from the article “Ibn Khaldun and The Arab Spring” by Jerry Ravetz
The moral element in political struggles, not merely expressed in fine rhetoric but worked out in practical politics and sacrifice, is the great defining difference between this age and all previous ones. Non-violence has emerged as the great guiding principle of the new politics of protest. In one way it is elementary prudence: the ruling elites can always deploy more violence than the
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