You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship
The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism
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Publisher: Libertarian Socialist Organization, Australia
Year First Published: {11824 You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship YOU CANT BLOW UP A SOCIAL RELATIONSHIP The Anarchist Case Against Terrorism http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CX5606-CantBlowUp.htm http://flag.blackened.net/noterror/cantblowup.html Libertarian Socialist Organization Australia An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics. 1979 1981 24pp BC11824w-YouCan'tBlowUpSocial.jpg PMP Pamphlet While media criticism of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing irately condemns "leftist" violence, it ignores the much larger history of violence perpetrated in the name of reactionary politics. Capitalism's own relationship with violence is in fact so extensive as to have become already invisible. Distinction also needs to be made between terrorism and "intimidation," where the latter term expressly refers to guerrilla warfare's unique political objectives, most imporant being an armed opposition or illegality to the most repressive features of the "bourgeois" state. Yet even such "imitidation" obscures the most vital of revolutionary aims - "The 'very act of taking up arms' may defy the law but it says nothing about what is being fought for." Inherent within all guerrilla movements is a belief in vanguard-based revolution, as well as "an irrational faith in action." CX5606 1 true true false CX5606.htm [0xc000f45320 0xc001bf5b00 0xc000144120 0xc0001fd0e0 0xc000736e70 0xc000fdc660 0xc001059440] Cx}
Year Published: 1981
Pages: 24pp Resource Type: Pamphlet
Cx Number: CX5606
An Australian socialist-libertarian response to terrorism in the aftermath of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing, and a meditation on the inferior logic of terrorist-based politics.
Abstract:
While media criticism of the 1978 Sidney Hilton bombing irately condemns "leftist" violence, it ignores the much larger history of violence perpetrated in the name of reactionary politics. Capitalism's own relationship with violence is in fact so extensive as to have become already invisible. Distinction also needs to be made between terrorism and "intimidation," where the latter term expressly refers to guerrilla warfare's unique political objectives, most imporant being an armed opposition or illegality to the most repressive features of the "bourgeois" state. Yet even such "imitidation" obscures the most vital of revolutionary aims - "The 'very act of taking up arms' may defy the law but it says nothing about what is being fought for." Inherent within all guerrilla movements is a belief in vanguard-based revolution, as well as "an irrational faith in action."
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