"The struggle made me a nonracialist": Why there was so little terrorism in the antiapartheid struggle

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2007-06-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.12.2.C27P720K825U3636

J. Goodwin

引用次数: 32

Abstract

Most theories of terrorism would lead one to have expected high levels of antiwhite terrorism in apartheid South Africa. Yet the African National Congress, the country's most important and influential antiapartheid political organization, never sanctioned terrorism against the dominant white minority. I argue that the ANC eschewed terrorism because of its commitment to "nonracial internationalism." From the ANC's perspective, to have carried out a campaign of indiscriminate or "categorical" terrorism against whites would have alienated actual and potential white allies both inside and outside the country. The ANC's ideological commitment to nonracialism had a specific social basis: It grew out of a long history of collaboration between the ANC and white leftists inside and outside the country, especially those in the South African Communist Party.

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“这场斗争使我成为一名非种族主义者”:为什么在反种族隔离斗争中几乎没有恐怖主义

大多数恐怖主义理论都会导致人们预期在种族隔离的南非会发生高度的反白人恐怖主义。然而，南非最重要、最具影响力的反种族隔离政治组织非洲人国民大会(African National Congress)从未批准针对占主导地位的白人少数民族的恐怖主义。我认为非国大避开恐怖主义是因为它致力于“非种族的国际主义”。从非洲人国民大会的角度来看，对白人进行不分青红皂白或“绝对”的恐怖主义活动，将会疏远南非国内外实际和潜在的白人盟友。非国大对非种族主义的意识形态承诺有着特定的社会基础:它源于非国大与南非内外的白人左翼分子，尤其是南非共产党(South African Communist Party)中的白人左翼分子长期以来的合作。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.