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There's always mind and bodies to replaced the killed. It's the mental discursive and motivation that matters. The movement was not at it's strongest in the early 70s(again read Withered Anarchism by Bob Black). It was clearly declining with split offs happening either in the direction of recuperation or niche zone radical existence(genX in the 80s and 90s basically). The killing was a small factor driven by an overreacting state who are obsessed with keeping things under control. The MOVE collective for instance was never going to be a revolutionary threat to the US. Yes state violence keeps things going but the state has to be believed to keep existing(voluntary servitude) and in revolutionary moments it's usually the revolution that does itself in via recuperation or it exhausts itself out.