Maybe he read Tolstoy's "The Kingdom of God is Within You".

At any rate simply renouncing violence does not make one less radical or less of a threat to those in power. An example? Ask Winston Churchill who's governments solidly defeated Hitler but, effectively, lost to Gahandi. I could tell you about ML King but we've all been there, so how about Keith McHenry. He's an anarchist radical whose Food Not Bombs is the fastest growing revolutionary movement in the US. Maybe you never herd of him and don't thing he's a threat; the FBI disagrees with you.

Wait! Wait! and my favorite radical of all, Jesus the messiah himself.

I think this should be considered more a change of tactic than a capitulation.

Evan