Domina mientras aparentas sumisión: Estrategia de la agresión pasiva

DOMINATE WHILE SEEMING TO SUBMIT
THE PASSIVE-AGGRESSION STRATEGY

Any attempt to bend people to your will is a form of
aggression. And in a world where political
considerations are paramount, the most effective
form of aggression is the best-hidden one:
aggression behind a compliant, even loving exterior.
To follow the passive-aggressive strategy, you must
seem to go along with people, offering no resistance.
But actually you dominate the situation. You are
noncommittal, even a little helpless, but that only
means that everything revolves around you. Some
people may sense what you are up to and get angry.
Don't worry--just make sure you have disguised your
aggression enough that you can deny it exists. Do it
right and they will feel guilty for accusing you.
Passive aggression is a popular strategy; you must
learn how to defend yourself against the vast legions
of passive-aggressive warriors who will assail you in
your daily life.
Robert Greene


Gandhi and his associates repeatedly deplored
the inability of their people to give organized,
effective, violent resistance against injustice
and tyranny. His own experience was
corroborated by an unbroken series of
reiterations from all the leaders of India--that
India could not practice physical warfare against
her enemies. Many reasons were given,
including weakness, lack of arms, having been
beaten into submission, and other arguments of
a similar nature....... Confronted with the issue of
what means he could employ against the
British, we come to the other criteria previously
mentioned; that the kind of means selected and
how they can be used is significantly dependent
upon the face of the enemy, or the character of
his opposition. Gandhi's opposition not only
made the effective use of passive resistance
possible but practically invited it. His enemy
was a British administration characterized by an
old, aristocratic, liberal tradition, one which
granted a good deal of freedom to its colonials
and which always had operated on a pattern of
using, absorbing, seducing, or destroying,
through flattery or corruption, the revolutionary
leaders who arose from the colonial ranks. This
was the kind of opposition that would have
tolerated and ultimately capitulated before the
tactic of passive resistance.
RULES FOR RADICALS, SAUL D. ALINSKY,
1971