It seems that the only form of violence [pacifists] consistently oppose is rebellion against the state. - Peter Gelderloos

We believe that tactics should be chosen to fit the particular situation, not drawn from a preconceived moral code.

Nonviolence is an inherently privileged position in the modern context. Besides the fact that the typical pacifist is quite clearly white and middle class, pacifism as an ideology comes from a privileged context. It ignores that violence is already here; that violence is an unavoidable, structurally integral part of the current social hierarchy; and that it is people of color who are most affected by that violence. Pacifism assumes that white people who grew up in the suburbs with all their basic needs met can counsel oppressed people, many of whom are people of color, to suffer patiently under an inconceivably greater violence, until such time as the Great White Father is swayed by the movement’s demands or the pacifists achieve that legendary “critical mass.”

The state is not a passive thing. If it wants to repress a movement or organization, it does not wait for an excuse, it manufactures one.