• QuietCupcake [any, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    The moment you break out of that paradigm the risk isn’t more random lone wolf killings, the real risk is people contemplating violent structural change.

    Which, love it or hate it, was a major goal behind propaganda of the deed. So admitting that these adventurist acts do have that effect is an admission that adventurism does work, or at least that it does have a role to play in actual systemic change.

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      Adventurism is a natural occurrence under sharpening contradictions, it’s not whether it is good or bad, that is like judging the morality of a lightning strike. But energy is energy and just as lightning is a violent discharge of atmospheric energy, which we observed and harnessed in the form of electricity, so too must we find effective ways to conduct and channel such energy building in the masses toward organized and productive and ultimately revolutionary ends.