Quite A BM
What I found interesting about The Baader Meinhoff Complex, a fairly faithful recreation (as far as I can tell) of the actions of the Red Army Faction in Germany from the late 60s to the late 70s, is how radical things got over there compared to here.Sure, there were student protests in the U.S. (aided, I'd think, by the threat of the draft), but the attempt to "bring the war home" from some on the left was fairly minor in comparison. If the Weather Underground was able to get anywhere near the sympathy the German militants got, it makes you wonder how large they might have grown, how many people they might have killed, and how American history would have changed. (Though Nixon would still have been President--he ran on law and order as it was.)
posted by LAGuy @ 12:07 AM
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How much more radical Europe was compared to America is one comparison but comparing how radical America was them to how it is now is an even more stunning comparison (of course there as much if not more violence perpetrated by the radicals representing law, order and tradition.
That's the old claim--that those in charge are just as violent as those opposing them. Except in a democracy, they're given a certain monopoly on legal force, so it's not much of a comparison.
Very much a valid comparison- unjustified violence is violence. Kent state, the 1968 Chicago police riot, the red squad raid on sleeping Black panthers matches up to American radicals. G Not to mention the G-20 imperial stormtroopers
Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you. - George Bernard Shaw, Misalliance
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