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I myself in France, have had to engage time and time again with advocates of "propaganda by the deed"-slash-"terrorism". Three years ago, together with some comrades, we were having a union meeting when two guys (in their forties) showed up and started talking about the need to "acquire assault rifles" and "start organizing military-style training, including the use of high-power explosives". When I told them that that was absolutely out of the question and that they were acting like "agents provocateurs", they started calling us "bourgeois" and launched into a weird discourse about how Stalin had saved the world from the Nazi menace by organizing partisans in Byelorussia and Ukraine. Their rhetoric was bizarre, to say the least, as they claimed to be "anarchists influenced by Stalinism/Maoism and the concept of a Protracted People's War directed at surrounding cities and doing away with the Sate apparatus in order to establish Libertarian Communism". Of course, we never saw them again, although they did manage to entice a younger and less-experienced comrade into their "People's Anarchist Guerrilla Brigade". He later told us that one of those two guys forgot his coat at a bar, and that when he went through the pockets ... he found an old pay slip from the "RG", the French Secret Service agency. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
