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OK, I never comment, but this is getting ridiculous.

Why can't people who oppose ITS (of which I am one) also just admit that their anarchist heroes like Di Giovanni, Mario Buda, etc. killed random passersby in their attacks? They might not have intended this as a goal (though it's hard to make the case that the Wall Street bombing was an "accident") but that doesn't mean it wasn't indiscriminate. Let's also remember that many of the attacks of the preceding attentat period - which the Galleanists valorized in their publications, names of their groups, Galleani's hagiography "Face to Face with the Enemy" - were random bombs thrown into cafes, clubs, etc.

Y'all are doing mental gymnastics when you say that anarchists detonating a horse-drawn wagon full of explosives in a public street, killing 38 random people and injuring hundreds of others, isn't an indiscriminate attack.

Please read Avrich, Bayer, Pernicone, etc. more carefully. It's possible to admire people who, in extreme circumstances or in the fever of revolution, committed acts we may be uncomfortable with. You can admit that anarchists have indiscriminately killed people while also being opposed to ITS. Seeing people bend over backwards and distort history because their moralistic binary worldview can't accept these facts is depressing.

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."