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Marighella's emphasis on terror as a tool for disrupting society borrows, of course, from the destructive spirit of anarchism, with its "propaganda of deed." The current upsurge of terrorist actions, in fact, strongly recalls the last decades of the 19th century, when an anarchistic reign of terror spread a blanket of fear over Europe...
...motivated arson, bombing, kidnaping and murder. Closely related to these is the phenomenon of skyjacking, for just as the highly complex 20th century city is the most vulnerable point in man's terrestrial sphere, so is the thin-skinned, 600-m.p.h. jet the most vulnerable in the atmosphere. The terrorist activity is worldwide, and most of it is carried out by a new type in the history of political warfare: the urban guerrilla...
...distinguishing feature of the urban guerrilla, says Rubenstein, is that he is "short-circuiting" the classic concept of revolution. Theorists from Locke to Marx to Herbert Marcuse have always discussed revolution in terms of mass movements. The very vulnerability of the modern industrial world allows the urban terrorist to skip the painstaking, step-by-step process of organizing a mass revolutionary movement and then taking disruptive action...
...arrests, but they turned up no sign of Cross and had few leads in the Laporte murder. Of some 9,000 sticks of stolen dynamite estimated to be in F.L.Q. hands, only 900 were recovered. What made the police search for the missing dynamite more urgent was a terrorist threat of a "blowup" in Montreal unless F.L.Q. prisoners were freed...
Argentina is not yet seriously threatened, but the country's military regime has been under siege by half a dozen different terrorist groups. Most of them style themselves not as Maoist or Castroite but as Peronist "protectors of the people," and they number no more than 100 or 200 men each. Last July, former President Pedro Aramburu was killed by a Peronist group calling itself the Monteneros (for "hired guns"). The generals are now talking about outflanking the "Peronists," many of whom are downright bandits, by inviting old Dictator Juan Perón himself to return from Madrid after 15 years...