Alessandro OrsiniAnatomy of the Red Brigades
The Religious Mind-Set of Modern Terrorists
Übersetzer: Nodes, Sarah J
Alessandro Orsini is professor of political sociology in the Faculty of Political Science, LUISS University of Rome "Guido Carli." He also teaches at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" and is the author of several books in Italian.
Introduction1. The Pedagogy of Intolerance
The Revolutionary Vocation
Violence as the Only Way
The "Binary Code" Mentality
Political Violence and Social Marginality
Eschatological Politics2. The Sacralization of Politics
The "Fanaticism of a New Religion"
Radical Catastrophism
The Revolutionary Sect and the Obsession with Purity
The Hatred of Reformists3. Toward the Bloodshed
Daily Life in a Revolutionary Sect
The Red Brigades' Organization Plan
The Blood Crime and Its "Story"
The Path to Bloodshed
Shedding Blood and the Role of the Revolutionary Sect
The Detachment from the Surrounding World4. The Genesis of the Red Brigades
The Red Brigades' Social Roots
The "Cultural Lag" Theory
When Were the Red Brigades Born?
The Red Brigades: "Imbeciles" or Real Revolutionaries?
Antonio Gramsci and "the Hour of Redemption"
The Italian Communist Party's Role in the Genesis of the Red Brigades
An Oxymoron: The "Leninist-Reformist" Party5. The Masters of the Red
Brigades
Illustrious Predecessors: Thomas Müntzer
John of Leiden, King and Revolutionary
The English Revolution and the Puritan Movement
The French Revolution and the Jacobin Experiment
Babeuf: "The world has plunged into chaos"
Karl Marx's Pantoclastic Dream
The Revolutionary Tradition of Russian Populism6. The Purifiers of the
World in Power
Lenin and State Terrorism
The Bolshevik Revolution and the "Victims of the Victims"
The Gulag, or The Promise Kept
Mao and the Myth of the "New Man"
The Cambodian RevolutionNot a Conclusion: Portrait of a Red
BrigadistAppendix: Red Brigades and Black BrigadesA Note on Method
Bibliography
Index
