Sabotage
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening an enemy through subversion, obstruction, disruption, and/or destruction. In war, the word is used to describe the activity of an individual or group not associated with the military (such as a foreign agent or an indigenous supporter), in particular when actions result in the destruction or damaging of a productive or vital facility, such as equipment, factories, dams, public services, or supply storage. Unlike acts of terrorism, acts of sabotage do not have a primary objective of inflicting casualties (but do not exclude this). Saboteurs are usually classified as unlawful enemy combatants.
The name derives from the early industrial age, when powered looms could be damaged by the wooden shoes (known in French as sabots) of the displaced weavers (proto-saboteurs) being thrown into the machinery. Literally it means, "clattering in sabots". Radical trade unions, such as the IWW, have advocated sabotage as a means of self-defense and direct action against unfair working conditions.
One of the tasks of security guards is the prevention and detection of sabotage.
Sabotage has also been used more loosely in a political-economic sense, as for example, the accusation that major US automobile manufactures sabotaged their own electric vehicle efforts by various means (particularly in the state of California) , where the production of zero pollution vehicles had been mandated upon them through legislative measures.
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External links, Resources, and References
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- Brian Martin, , Nonviolence versus Capitalism [PDF]
Other meanings
Rock album
Sabotage is also the name of an early Black Sabbath album, see Sabotage (album).
Movie
Sabotage is also the name of a British film directed by Sir Alfred Hitchcock in 1936.
Song/Music Video
Sabotage is also the name of a Beastie Boys song from the album Ill Communication, whose music video, directed by Spike Jonze, was nominated for a bunch of MTV awards in 1997 when it came out.
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