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How can democratically-minded citizens bring about political change?

The uprising in #HongKong forces us to think about our theories of change, in this case our theories of and for political change (TOPC).

What are #theoriesofandforpoliticalchange and why do they matter? /1
The scholarship of the US American political theorist and peace activist Gene Sharp, US American community organiser Saul Alinsky and Brazilian educator Paulo Freire provides us with three distinctive and yet interrelated #theoriesofandforpoliticalchange /2
What follows is a highly condensed overview of their respective #theoryofandforpoliticalchange.

For a more comprehensive introduction please read book chapters 3 and 4.

I will start with Gene Sharp’s advocacy of non-violent struggle: an anti-establishment approach /3
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