[LAF] 19th Century Bombs

Joy Wood joy_helbin at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 19 21:50:20 UTC 2005


oooooh don't be so defeatist :)


>From: steve ash <steveash_2001 at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: Adrian Williams <adrianrwilliams at yahoo.co.uk>, laf at lists.aktivix.org
>Subject: Re: [LAF] 19th Century Bombs
>Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 08:51:10 +0100 (BST)
>
>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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