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BENN PRYBUTOK Avatar
BENN PRYBUTOK
Posted: 02.23.10, 12:32 PM
Tristan... If you don't think that the 19th and early 20th century anarchists were "into bombs," etc., you really need to go back and take another look at the works of Mikhail Bakunin, Sergei Necheyev, ("propaganda by deed"), Johann Most (theory of "Attentat", and "Philosophy of the Bomb",Luigi Galleani, just to name a very few. If your point is that this strain of theory and praxis is not representative of ALL anarchists, you are technically correct -- but only 'technically'. Yes, there have always been some dissenting (usually pacifist) voices in the anarchist ranks, but militant anarchism has almost always inevitably descended (or 'ascended' -- depending upon you point of view...) into violent 'direct action' against 'the established order'. The reason that the 19th century and early-20th century anarchists are of interest today, stems from the present re-emergence of so-called "leaderless resistance", or more specifically, "leaderless jihad", which sees spontaneous, sporadic, and individual terrorist attacks as being functional in creating fear and insecurity in society, quite apart from building any kind of mass revolutionary or insurrectionist movement. Jihadist violence directed against and within the West, is increasingly "Al Qa'ida-inspired", rather than "Al-Qa'ida-directed", and is perpetrated by small, disconnected, primary peer groups (what Marc Sageman refers to as "bunches of guys"). RAND is among those who are doing a great job of describing this newly-emergent kind of 21st century terrorism. In fact, they are, by-and-large, actively promoting a humanistic, and highly-political "hearts-and-minds" theory of warfare, which takes cognizance of the underlying sources of perceived deprivation, powerlessness, frustration, and the sense of humiliation that produces terrorism and terrorists. They are to be lauded and thanked.
Tristan Mendoza Avatar
Tristan Mendoza
Posted: 10.29.09, 09:29 AM
The content that is there is eh *sigh* ok, but I note: no mention of Mujahideen, CIA or Russians. Which is typical of RAND as they are the 'best and the brightest' that got us into things like Vietnam with ulterior motive. I was also a bit disappointed, but not surprised at their characterization of anarchists as being into bombs, revealing their complete lack of knowledge of anything real anarchist philosophy states. It was a propaganda effort, and a framing such as the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago which painted anarchists as interested in bombthrowing. It is commonly known historically that it was an agent provocateur at the Haymarket operating to create the chaos that ensued.... not unlike when police agents dress as black bloc in ski masks at things like the WTO protests and start tearing things up to discredit the protesters.
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