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Re:Power substations vandalized in Washington state by jimbob45 on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:22PM (#34140830)
“Terrorism” is just the 21st century rebranding of the 20th century’s “anarchism”. People used “anarchism” and “anarchist” frequently during the 20th century.
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Re:Power substations vandalized in Washington state by asveikau on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:30PM (#34140935)
Anarchism has an actual political meaning, with lots of literature.

Terrorism isn't a consistent ideological position. People don't openly advocate for terrorist states, terrorist literature and philosophy, terrorist thinkers and political party. There's no terrorist bookstore, but here in SF I can go down to Haight St and find an anarchist bookstore ...

On the other hand I think terrorist is an appropriate description for a Timothy McVeigh or a Kaczynski. I would state those as more violent than 20th century anarchists.

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Re:Power substations vandalized in Washington state by Maursault on Monday December 26, 2022 @02:35PM (#34140983)
> People used “anarchism” and “anarchist” frequently during the 20th century.

Though anarchism was pretty much dead by the end of WWII, I think now they're just called Republicans.

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