[LAF] 19th Century Bombs

[steve ash]

They probably wouldn't print it.

--- Adrian Williams <adrianrwilliams at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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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