HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Structural Violence, Revolutionary Terror, Al-Qaeda
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Divergent explanation for terrorism: terrorists are compelled to commit terrorism because of psychological forces, their subsequent efforts to rationalize their acts is psycho logic. , political violence is an end in and of itself, a terrorist group needs to commit acts of terrorism in order to justify its existence. , imbalance between opposition and centralized bureaucratic states leave the former no choice, a calculated response of the opposition to opportunity to: Revolutionary terror! : the jacobins referred, as a precedent, to germanic tribal confederation, these were targeted assassinations of important state officials (mostly top leaders) or explosions, the bombs came to be seen as an equalizer with forces of the bourgeois state. , anarchists did not regard themselves as violent but regarded their violence as necessary to neutralize, the last two decades of the 19th ce also saw a rapid decline of terrorist acts:
