File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2000/anarchy-list.0008, message 41


Subject: Re: Unabomber (was Re: "Propaganda by Deed" is Vangaurdism)
From: Revolt News <Revolt.News-AT-pmail.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 15:01:48 +0100


>> To take a couple of examples, just suppose
>> somebody had managed to successfully plant a bomb
>> which blew up Adolf Hitler at the height of his powers.

Jamal Hannah said at
>This is a fantasy situation and is hypothetical.

Is it?  I'm not sure about Hitler but anarchists
did make several attempts to assassinate other
Fascist leaders by precisely such methods.  The
British anarchist Stuart Christie for instance who
in actually online served a couple of years in
a Spanish jail for taking part in an attempted
assassination of Franco in the late 1960s'.  There
were numerous anarchist plots to assassinate Franco
in fact and I know of at least one to assassinate
Mussolini by Michael Schirru who was executed for
the attempt.  See
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/schirru.html

These are very real historical reasons why anarchists
should be _very_ careful before labelling all such
attempts as 'terrorism', not hypothetical situations.
Yes such methods are unavoidably 'vanguardist' in
the sense that they can only be carried out secretly
by the few but there are situations where little
other alternative actually exists.  And  a situation
where a country is under martial law imposed by a 
fascist tyrant in one such situation.  Pacifist
methods were not an option under Franco, someone
who murders 500,000 after a civil way will not
be dissuaded by the idea of gunning down 50, 100
or 500 pacifists.

Andrew
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