The anthology contains reflections of outstanding foreign thinkers of the 20th century on the role and possibilities of violence and non-violence in politics. The texts included here represent different ideological and conceptual approaches. Some of them were written by active participants in political life, others belong to the pen of outstanding political philosophers and ethicists. What unites these texts, in addition to their common problems, is only the strong resonance that they had in the social consciousness of their contemporaries under the influence of the great and tragic events of the past century. Almost all texts have been translated into Russian for the first time. In addition to its independent significance, the anthology serves as a textbook for courses taught to undergraduate and graduate students in the humanities on the topic “Morality and Politics.”

Contents:

Preface. Moral politics and political morality (trans. B. Kapustin) Franz Fanon. Branded with a curse (trans. M. Fedorova) Franz Fanon. About violence (translated by M. Fedorova) Ernesto Che Guevara. Guerrilla warfare: method (translated by A. Kuptsov) Ernesto Che Guevara. Message to the Tricontinental Conference and the peoples of the world (translated by A. Kuptsov) Mahatma Gandhi. Speeches and articles on non-violence and non-violent resistance (translated by A. Vyazmina, O. Margyshin, E. Panfilov and R. Ulyanovsky) Vaclav Havel. The power of the powerless (translated by I. Shablovskaya and L. Vikhreva) Hannah Arendt. On violence (Parts II, III) (translated by M. Abramov and I. Murberg) Reinhold Niebuhr. Preservation of moral values in politics (translated by M. Abramova and I. Murberg) Reinhold Niebuhr. The conflict between the individual and public morality (trans. I. Murberg) Bernard Williams. Politics and moral personality (trans. I. Murberg) Georg Lukacs. Articles and letters about ethics and politics. (translated by S. Zemlyany): The role of morality in communist production. Bolshevism as a moral problem. Tactics and ethicspp. N. Zemlyanoy. Comments on a selection of ethical texts by Georg Lukács