When Polish workers on the Baltic Coast went on strike again in 1980, they were joined by lawyers, scholars, and others who helped them make their case. There were people from both the Right and the Left, believers and atheists, who created trust among workers-people whom they would not otherwise have met. In 1976, however, intellectuals and professionals formed a group to assist workers who had been abused by the government. In 1970, when a strike in Gdańsk on the Baltic Coast was bloodily suppressed, it was the workers’ turn to feel isolated. In 1968, the regime mobilized workers against students who protested. Its leaders had learned hard lessons under communism. The one example of successful resistance to communism was the Solidarity labor movement in Poland in 1980–81: a coalition of workers and professionals, elements of the Roman Catholic Church, and secular groups. If tyrants feel no consequences for their actions in the three-dimensional world, nothing will change. Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. Second, people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not agree about everything. Make new friends and march with them.įor resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A bracing (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting Americas turn towards authoritarianism, from a rising public.22. In it, Snyder and Krug reflect on the importance of in-person politics, taking to the streets, and organizing across social groups and boundaries. Snyder’s lessons in abuse of power are as relevant as ever, while Krug’s drawings provide new cultural references, as in this example from Poland’s Solidarity labor movement.
Now, On Tyrann y appears in a new graphic edition illustrated by Nora Krug, author of Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home. The book provided timely advice for Americans reeling under the Trump administration. Informed by his study of Nazi Germany and the U.S.S.R., Snyder writes about how to recognize and resist the ways totalitarian regimes take over.
“Do not obey in advance,” begins On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century by Yale history professor Timothy Snyder.
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