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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

They were like, all right, look, all that stuff going on in Russia, we're all mad at each other, but right now, Italy is being taken over by fascists. We got to do something about that. Right. And they all agreed what needed to be done was kill Mussolini.

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

And this action was intended to be anything but a propaganda of the deed action, which is, I think, actually a really important point for kind of what we ended on talking about last week. Right. As a Libcom.org article put it, quote, Propaganda of the deed attacks were supposed to inspire the working classes to rise, and in this they were entirely unsuccessful.

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

And this action was intended to be anything but a propaganda of the deed action, which is, I think, actually a really important point for kind of what we ended on talking about last week. Right. As a Libcom.org article put it, quote, Propaganda of the deed attacks were supposed to inspire the working classes to rise, and in this they were entirely unsuccessful.

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

And this action was intended to be anything but a propaganda of the deed action, which is, I think, actually a really important point for kind of what we ended on talking about last week. Right. As a Libcom.org article put it, quote, Propaganda of the deed attacks were supposed to inspire the working classes to rise, and in this they were entirely unsuccessful.

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

In this instance, however, the urge to kill Mussolini was the expression of a convergence of opinion among many popularly representative political groupings, and was commonly perceived as a necessity at that point in time. So it wasn't like, oh, we're going to...

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

In this instance, however, the urge to kill Mussolini was the expression of a convergence of opinion among many popularly representative political groupings, and was commonly perceived as a necessity at that point in time. So it wasn't like, oh, we're going to...

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

In this instance, however, the urge to kill Mussolini was the expression of a convergence of opinion among many popularly representative political groupings, and was commonly perceived as a necessity at that point in time. So it wasn't like, oh, we're going to...

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

spur on the revolution and radicalize people by showing them that you know our opponents are made of flesh and blood it was like no Mussolini is basically the enemy war leader that we're in a war against you know mm-hmm One word that has never been successfully applied to anarchists is cowardice.

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

spur on the revolution and radicalize people by showing them that you know our opponents are made of flesh and blood it was like no Mussolini is basically the enemy war leader that we're in a war against you know mm-hmm One word that has never been successfully applied to anarchists is cowardice.

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

spur on the revolution and radicalize people by showing them that you know our opponents are made of flesh and blood it was like no Mussolini is basically the enemy war leader that we're in a war against you know mm-hmm One word that has never been successfully applied to anarchists is cowardice.

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

And specifically... Other groups like putting us in the front.

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

And specifically... Other groups like putting us in the front.

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

And specifically... Other groups like putting us in the front.

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

Yeah. I remember when I first became an anarchist, I was just going to protests and things 27 years ago. And my roommate in college was like, you anarchists, you're just the berserkers of the protest movement. People just throw you in the front to soak up all the damage. And I was like, no, no. He was a little bit right, at least in terms of how people perceive us and use us.

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

Yeah. I remember when I first became an anarchist, I was just going to protests and things 27 years ago. And my roommate in college was like, you anarchists, you're just the berserkers of the protest movement. People just throw you in the front to soak up all the damage. And I was like, no, no. He was a little bit right, at least in terms of how people perceive us and use us.

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

Yeah. I remember when I first became an anarchist, I was just going to protests and things 27 years ago. And my roommate in college was like, you anarchists, you're just the berserkers of the protest movement. People just throw you in the front to soak up all the damage. And I was like, no, no. He was a little bit right, at least in terms of how people perceive us and use us.

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

So, of course, when they're like, who's going to go risk their life to go do this? An anarchist volunteered. And twice he returned to Italy to meet with comrades there to plan the assassination. And they met aboard a ship at sea, which is aesthetic as fuck, off the Tuscany coast. And this time, there were no informants among them. He had several co-conspirators worth mentioning.

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

So, of course, when they're like, who's going to go risk their life to go do this? An anarchist volunteered. And twice he returned to Italy to meet with comrades there to plan the assassination. And they met aboard a ship at sea, which is aesthetic as fuck, off the Tuscany coast. And this time, there were no informants among them. He had several co-conspirators worth mentioning.

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

So, of course, when they're like, who's going to go risk their life to go do this? An anarchist volunteered. And twice he returned to Italy to meet with comrades there to plan the assassination. And they met aboard a ship at sea, which is aesthetic as fuck, off the Tuscany coast. And this time, there were no informants among them. He had several co-conspirators worth mentioning.

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

Stefano Vadieroni was an anarchist tinsmith from Rome who was the secretary of the library. The fucking librarian was in on this assassination. The secretary of Mussolini's library supplied all of the details, including Mussolini's routes by car. Vadieroni funded the thing by selling his family's land near Carrara.