ABSTRACT
The manifesto includes a vision of a new society—its economy and ecology, its forms of conflict, its global dimensions. The manifesto also proposes a framework for strategy of struggle and change. In the Belgian socialists' struggle for universal suffrage there was a period of flirtation with a violent strategy imported from the French revolutionary tradition. The organizational forms can reflect so literally the radical vision that they become the end instead of the means to social change; the revolutionists can isolate themselves into sects of the righteous. There are some reforms which, if they can be achieved, involve a shift in power relations that they can fairly be called "revolutionary reforms." The tempo of the revolutionary process depends largely on history: economic conditions, ecological strains, political rigidities, cultural development. The nonviolent revolutionary process arms the people against distorted institutions, however, through the widespread application of pacific militancy.
