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passive resistance en · NOUN
Meanings
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noncompliance with an authority as a form of protest against injustice, as by fasting, peaceful demonstration, or refusal to cooperate
Some Maoist “party cadres” at the lower echelon have taken an attitude of passive resistance against the “campaign of learning from Tachai in agriculture,” that was launched by Mao Tse-tung.
1975 December 21, “Difficulties in agriculture”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 50, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:On June 2, Gandhiji declared in an interview that passive resistance was inevitable if Government failed to meet Indian demands.
1964, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, volume XII, →OCLC, page vi:
Relateds
passive-aggressive