{"id":818,"date":"2005-07-15T04:01:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-15T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:15","slug":"verlac_and_prof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Verlac and Professor Pape"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I noted in a comment<\/a> below, I happened to look up as I was reading the Pape interview and see my copy of Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent<\/a>‘ on the dining room bookshelf (between Larry Brown’s ‘Facing the Music<\/a>‘ and Gordon Dickson’s ‘Tactics of Mistake<\/a>,’ in case you care…).<\/p>\n

And I dredged out of my memory the notion that we may just have been here before; grieving over the torn bodies of the victims of terrorists.<\/p>\n

Part of the reason I’ve argued for so long<\/a> (in the face of some heated<\/a> opposition) that there are some common intellectual and historical roots between the New Left (which is really the mainstream left today) and Islamism is because – in part – the New Left has it’s roots in the decades of terror in the late 1800’s and in the philosophies that shaped them.<\/p>\n

From Malaesta’s “Propaganda by deed” in 1876 to the Wall Street Bombing<\/a> in 1920 (arguably the first car bomb), anarchist & socialist ‘true believers’ – and those who fell into their wake – killed czars and kings as well as industrialists and those unlucky enough to be standing close by.<\/p>\n

The response within Europe was brutal, ruthless, and doubtless – by our standards – impossibly unjust.<\/p>\n

But the movement had put down roots, and as it grew … through Fanon and Guevara<\/a>, who became the icons of the praxis-oriented members of the New Left in Columbia, Port Huron, and Paris.<\/p>\n

The levels of violence in Europe in the 1890’s were far lower than those we’re seeing in the Middle East today, and the intensity was lower as well. But we live in a faster-moving, more connected world, and the tools for big explosions don’t just come from Nobel’s factories any more.<\/p>\n

I think it’s worth exploring this history a little bit, and seeing what it was that brought on – and most important, what brought down – the levels of public violence. I’d encourage folks to add what they know, and will post on it again in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I noted in a comment below, I happened to look up as I was reading the Pape interview and see my copy of Conrad’s ‘The Secret Agent‘ on the dining room bookshelf (between Larry Brown’s ‘Facing the Music‘ and Gordon Dickson’s ‘Tactics of Mistake,’ in case you care…). And I dredged out of my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}