Mandela’s utilitarianism and the struggle for liberation

Open Democracy December 13, 2013
Republished by Huffington Post, International Center for Nonviolent Conflict, Scoop Independent News New Zealand, and Dawson College Inspire Solutions Project
   While many western governments argued that the supposedly benevolent influence of western capital would lead to liberalization and an eventual end to South Africa’s apartheid system, and many on the left argued that liberation would come only through armed revolution, in fact it was largely unarmed resistance by the black majority and its supporters, both within South Africa and abroad, which proved decisive.