[LAF] 19th Century Bombs

[Adrian Williams]

Sounds as if you should write to New Statesman to say
this. There is one letter about the article in NS this
week (dated 15th) but nothing like what you have
below.

Adrian Williams

--- steve ash <steveash_2001 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> That 19th century bombs article was terrible. Quite
> unhistorical in that it failed to point out that
> while
> anarchists were often blamed for the bombs, most
> were
> actually planted by the Nationalist groups like the
> Black Hand (who started WWI when they assassinated
> Archduke Ferdinand). The only anarchist I've heard
> of
> who promoted terrorism as a means to an end was
> Johann
> Most, who was one of those Marxist Anarchist hybrids
> into class struggle, who tended to terrorise the
> bourgeosie in various ways. The other anarchist
> bombs
> that seem historically verifiable seem one off
> attack
> on specific targets like a restaurant whose owner
> was
> a police informer etc etc or some grudge held by a
> 'nuttier' member of the anarchist movement.
> 
> But worse than this is the authors confusion between
> real acccounts and fictional accounts.
> 
> Steve
> 


		
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