The larger point here is that you don't get to choose. We're not gonna "choose" whether or not the revolution is violent. They are. Every resistance movement in history starts with a demand, and a refusal to comply with unjust oppression and exploitation.
We don't start shooting; they do. And you need to understand that because the ruling power has taught you a back-asswards version of history where ppl who don't want to starve are "violent terrorists"
It's nonsense. Power always shoots first