devilof76
Super Freak
Thank you Confucius. I didn't know. I thought for sure that violence began in 1793 when the French Revolution went to hell. I had always thought of the entire remainder of human history as a pacifist Eden with lots of bunnies and other assorted happy ^^^^.
In modern political history, in the countries where property rights, relatively private banking, and objective law were the dominant features of the culture, the use of terrorist violence to affect change was overwhelmingly a Leftist tactic. Starting with the execution of Louis XIV, moving through the socialist and anarchist riots, assassinations and bombings of the 19th century, climaxing first with the Bolsheviks in 1917, then with the post-WWI Italian, Spanish and German fascists (alleged to be right-wing, but only if you were standing amongst the communist left), and later the Palestinian movement out of the late 60's, the New Left of the early 70's (Weathermen, Black Panthers, etc.), all of the satellite international groups trained by the Soviets in the 80's (IRA, Italian Red Brigades, Action Directe, Japanese Red Army, Baader-Meinhoff, etc.), and ultimately the modern 'progressive' anarchist, feminist, environmentalist, multiculturalist post-modern community action movements. Through that entire history, right-wing violence has been completely reactionary and marginal, and none of it has been motivated by the ideals of the original target of leftist 'direct action', i.e., capitalism. All right-wing movements have risen out of racist, fundamentalist religious or nationalist ideology--ideologies cut from the same philosophical cloth as the radical left.
