Tag Archives: Mikhail Bakunin

karl marx: family values

Karl Marx a man with a cheery, gay, soul, engaging in horse-play and telling fantastic stories in the manner of E.T.A Hoffmann; a man brimming over with humour, gentleness, kindness and patience? (see link at end)…The first genius of the … Continue reading

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karl marx: the romantic idealist as hidden face

Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he makes… …Marx’s dreams were imperialist in scale, ecumenical in scope, and grounded on a panoramic view of world history. Such cosmopolitanism, too, is characteristic of his generation. … Continue reading

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terrorism: no innocent victims

…At his trial Emile Henry explained with some pride how he had constructed his bomb according to approved scientific principles and had methodically rehearsed his crime. he was less articulate about why he had picked that particular target. The Cafe … Continue reading

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terrorism: worshiping dynamite

…While counting on the strategy of the Big Bang to disorganize bourgeois society, anarchist publications of the period also offered their readers practical hints for furthering the cause at the village or household level. “Burn down or blow up churches,” … Continue reading

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terrorism: double lust for power

…The anecdote of Yevno Azef is more than a picturesque footnote to the general history of modern terrorism. It illustrates the almost universal vulnerability of terrorist organizations to infiltration by the police or the secret service, and the lengths to … Continue reading

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terrorism: violence for its own sake

…Degeneration, moreover, does not always take the same forms. The Combat Organization set up within the Socialist Revolutionary party in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth-century carried out terrorist operations on an unprecedented scale. Its victims included, besides the … Continue reading

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terrorism: salvational violence

…In the more extreme anarchist circles there gradually developed a sect of what might almost literally be called dynamite worshipers. A song once popular in the ill-lighted, absinthe reeking Montmartre cabarets patronized by Bohemian intellectuals and authentic working-class anarchists expresses … Continue reading

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terrorism: letting the psychopaths take over

…The arrogant, callous, almost senseless crime in the Cafe Terminus by Emile Henry in 1894, followed some years later by the emergence of the Bonnot gang- motorized bandits who professed anarchist convictions but likewise robbed and murdered for their personal … Continue reading

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terrorism: propaganda by deed

The trial and execution of the Will of the People for the assassination of Alexander II in 1881, only intensified the reaction and repression, which in turn aggravated revolutionary violence. But it etched in the Russian mind the romantic image … Continue reading

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MARCUSE : POURING SALT ONTO SACCHARINE NOTIONS

Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the … Continue reading

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