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Introduction | p. 1 |
The Pedagogy of Intolerance | p. 9 |
The Revolutionary Vocation | p. 9 |
Violence as the Only Way | p. 14 |
The ôBinary Codeö Mentality | p. 17 |
Political Violence and Social Marginality | p. 21 |
Eschatological Politics | p. 26 |
The Sacralization of Politics | p. 30 |
The ôFanaticism of a New Religionö | p. 30 |
Radical Catastrophism | p. 33 |
The Revolutionary Sect and the Obsession with Purity | p. 36 |
The Hatred of Reformists | p. 42 |
Toward the Bloodshed | p. 48 |
Daily Life in a Revolutionary Sect | p. 48 |
The Red Brigades' Organization Plan | p. 54 |
The Blood Crime and Its ôStoryö | p. 58 |
The Path to Bloodshed | p. 66 |
Shedding Blood and the Role of the Revolutionary Sect | p. 83 |
The Detachment from the Surrounding World | p. 89 |
The Genesis of the Red Brigades | p. 93 |
The Red Brigades' Social Roots | p. 93 |
The ôCultural Lagö Theory | p. 108 |
When Were the Red Brigades Born? | p. 118 |
The Red Brigades: ôImbecilesö or Real Revolutionaries? | p. 122 |
Antonio Gramsci and the ôHour of Redemptionö | p. 125 |
The Italian Communist Party's Role in the Genesis of the Red Brigades | p. 131 |
An Oxymoron: The ôLeninist-Reformistö Party | p. 147 |
The Masters of the Red Brigades | p. 155 |
Illustrious Predecessors: Thomas Müntzer | p. 155 |
John of Leiden, King and Revolutionary | p. 162 |
The English Revolution and the Puritan Movement | p. 165 |
The French Revolution and the Jacobin Experiment | p. 170 |
Babeuf: ôThe world has plunged into chaosö | p. 184 |
Karl Marx's Pantoclastic Dream | p. 187 |
The Revolutionary Tradition of Russian Populism | p. 196 |
The Purifiers of the World in Power | p. 208 |
Lenin and State Terrorism | p. 208 |
The Bolshevik Revolution and the ôVictims of the Victimsö | p. 213 |
The Gulag, or The Promise Kept | p. 217 |
Mao and the Myth of the ôNew Manö | p. 226 |
The Cambodian Revolution | p. 237 |
Not a Conclusion: Portrait of a Red Brigadist | p. 253 |
Appendix: Red Brigades and Black Brigades | p. 263 |
A Note on Method | p. 285 |
Bibliography | p. 289 |
Index of Names | p. 313 |
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