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Margaret Killjoy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

I feel like at the end of a G.I. Joe episode where you tell kids to like not hide in refrigerators. Right. I feel like it's worth pointing out that I really am talking about history here and that nothing necessarily good happened from any of the attempts that I'm describing. I am not morally against the attempts that I am describing. I'm clearly not of this thing that happened in the 1920s.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But I want to be like clear on that.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But I want to be like clear on that.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But I want to be like clear on that.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

No, it is worth thinking about that anarchists had given up on propaganda by the deed at this point. Propaganda by the deed was this anarchist idea that people were like, well, the masses don't really read theory, so let's just show them by killing all the kings and the people who are in charge of them.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

No, it is worth thinking about that anarchists had given up on propaganda by the deed at this point. Propaganda by the deed was this anarchist idea that people were like, well, the masses don't really read theory, so let's just show them by killing all the kings and the people who are in charge of them.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

No, it is worth thinking about that anarchists had given up on propaganda by the deed at this point. Propaganda by the deed was this anarchist idea that people were like, well, the masses don't really read theory, so let's just show them by killing all the kings and the people who are in charge of them.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And it overall was disastrous for the anarchist movement because it just led people to then defend the very systems that the anarchists were opposed to. And this happened time and time again. There are exceptions. During the run-up to the Russian Revolution, from like 1903 to 1917, anarchists and other groups were all doing these attentats, all doing these assassinations.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And it overall was disastrous for the anarchist movement because it just led people to then defend the very systems that the anarchists were opposed to. And this happened time and time again. There are exceptions. During the run-up to the Russian Revolution, from like 1903 to 1917, anarchists and other groups were all doing these attentats, all doing these assassinations.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And it overall was disastrous for the anarchist movement because it just led people to then defend the very systems that the anarchists were opposed to. And this happened time and time again. There are exceptions. During the run-up to the Russian Revolution, from like 1903 to 1917, anarchists and other groups were all doing these attentats, all doing these assassinations.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And it did lead to a revolutionary situation, which of course all kind of ended badly. and created the USSR. But usually these kind of things destroy a social movement. Sometimes, if enough people are interested in it, it builds a social movement. But usually it doesn't. And that is the, like... It's a crapshoot at best.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And it did lead to a revolutionary situation, which of course all kind of ended badly. and created the USSR. But usually these kind of things destroy a social movement. Sometimes, if enough people are interested in it, it builds a social movement. But usually it doesn't. And that is the, like... It's a crapshoot at best.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And it did lead to a revolutionary situation, which of course all kind of ended badly. and created the USSR. But usually these kind of things destroy a social movement. Sometimes, if enough people are interested in it, it builds a social movement. But usually it doesn't. And that is the, like... It's a crapshoot at best.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

It's a, like, let's redraw our hand of cards and probably get something worse.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

It's a, like, let's redraw our hand of cards and probably get something worse.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

It's a, like, let's redraw our hand of cards and probably get something worse.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But still... If someone had successfully killed Mussolini, I bet the world would have been a better place.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But still... If someone had successfully killed Mussolini, I bet the world would have been a better place.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

But still... If someone had successfully killed Mussolini, I bet the world would have been a better place.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

And we're going to talk about like five more of them on Wednesday. Yeah.