Scrofula
Bluelight Crew
My golden rule is that violence never solves anything. It never completely settles an issue. The civil rights movement in the USA did not rely on violence and it's easily argued that it received extreme violence to counter it. It was a pretty successful movement too.
I think the greatest threat to society doesn't come from Nazi's but from the countless people who think they are justified in using violence to impose their will.
A lot of this is academic because no one is goose stepping yet. But it's not as far removed as it seems.
In your civil rights war analogy, the fascists would be (not far from) southern governments and police, but with a Federal government and troops sympathetic (or feeling guilty) to the oppressed, who would not have emerged otherwise.
The non-violence movement successes--here, India, south Africa--were an appeal to the outside for help. And help came from economic pressure, or in the US in the form of the fucking Army.
Guys with guns. To let a little black girl get to class. LBJ may have gotten Congress to sign the Civil Rights Bill, but it was the threat of violence that enforced it.
(Who controls those guns right now? A guy who inspired Charlottesville, with a fascist as his top law enforcement official.)
The peace movements that weren't successful aren't heard about.
The problem is that while both sides of any conflict believes they're "right" or deserving, in a few of those, there is--from a wide, moral, humanistic view--ONE that is at least more right. And with fascism, one that is evil. Maybe the only case where one side is indefensibly evil.
You can't ignore them because lots of people use violent methods. They themselves are a violent method. It's humanity's Id that flares up occasionally like a drunk's rage. You don't argue with it, you throw it out of the bar before it burns everything down.