Peace Betrayed?: Essays on Pacifism and Politics

By Michael Cromartie

In his highly controversial 1988 book Peace and Revolution, political scientist Guenter Lewy charged that since the Vietnam era the four major American pacifist organizations American Friends Service Committee, Fellowship of Reconciliation, War Resisters League, and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom have moved from singlehanded devotion to the principles of nonviolence and reconciliation to a defense of "the moral legitimacy of armed struggle and guerrilla warfare." This provocative collection begins with a summary of Lewy's argument. The fifteen respondents pacifists and non-pacifists join the discussion. Some decry Lewy's account as prejudiced and incomplete; others applaud it as a long overdue exposure of the subversions of a noble purpose. In a final chapter, Lewy responds to his critics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089633144X
• ISBN13: 9780896331440
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 270 Pages