Over at Compact, Leighton Woodhouse has a fascinating review essay looking at the extremisms of the 1990s in America, and he comes to the conclusion that political violence has lost any connection to political aims or a theory of political change.

It is as delusional to believe that meaningful change can come from guns and incendiary devices as from votes and campaign contributions. Government repression of radical groups from the Black Panthers to the ELF........

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