I found myself constantly raising my eyebrows at Gelderloos points, which I found novel and unorthodox, but which he argues very convincingly

The most valuable thing about this book was in understanding how the debate around violence/non-violence is consciously used by the state (in coordination with their own violence) to divide social movements against state violence and to destroy them. Shortly after reading this book I came across Unicorn Riot's documentary "Black Snake Killaz", and it helped me to understand this exact practice unfurling in the US military's campaign against the "water-protectors" (the protestors campaigning against an oil pipeline in Dakota and the subsequent environmental catastophe)