Context: Luigi Galleani was an Italian Anarchist, who advocated for ‘Propaganda of the Deed’ - radical, direct action (political assassinations, bombings, etc).
He was arrested and exiled numerous times for his insurrectionist and anti-war views. Eventually growing disillusioned with labour movements and unionism for their reformist approaches. His followers were known as Galleanisti and were responsible for acts such as poisoning hundreds of high profile industrial/finance/law figures at a banquet a la the Red Wedding, attempting to bomb John D. Rockefeller, fighting in the Mexican revolution, bombing Wall Street, among other notable acts of resistance.
How have you come to the conclusion that propaganda of the deed never works? I’m still on the fence about its effectiveness, especially in light of what happened after Charlie Kirk and Shinzo Abe were “styled upon”.
IMO, propaganda of the deed is not a substitute for organizing and social revolution, but… for people whose only language is terror, i.e. the tyrants, I’m not against terrorizing and assassinating these fuckers.
Not sure about Abe, but Kirk was just yet another inevitable example of right-on-right violence and thus doesn’t count.
I mean just because the shooter wasn’t a leftist doesn’t mean it wasn’t propaganda of the deed, right? Like clearly, Kirk was targeted (rightly
) because of what he said (otherwise, why not shoot anyone else at the event?), I guess from a right-wing perspective.