DIS-CONTENTS:
Interview with the Brazillian anarcho-punk band Execredores.
Special On Gogol Boulevard section on Anarchism in the Ex-Yugoslav Republics.
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DIS-CONTENTS: Interview with the Brazillian anarcho-punk band Execredores. Special On Gogol Boulevard section on Anarchism in the Ex-Yugoslav Republics. |
POLITICAL STATEMENT #28
"Anarchist/Nihilist: Today's anarchist/nihilist terrorist groups believe in and strive for the complete destruction of Western Society as we know it. Most anarchist groups aspouse support for and belief in the Marxist Leninist philosophy (sic), and allege to be fighting evil capitalism and imperialism for the good of the masses of the world. In reality they propose only to destroy the targeted governments and other social institutions without advocating any real form of replacement government. They do not truly want revolution, only destruction. A number of Western European terrorist groups, the Red Army Faction (RAF) for example, follow this way of thinking. The best way to summarize this ideology is to quote from an RAF statement: 'Society is corrupt; it must be destroyed; that which comes later will be better.' In specific terms, the major difference between anarchism and nihilism is that while anarchism calls for the destruction of existing governments and their controls, nihilism demands all of that and in addition destruction of all existing social institutions and structures. Anarchist ideology is usually reflected in the group's organization, which will not be as rigidly structured as in a 'traditional' Marxist-Leninist orientated group, and will not have or be subordinate to a political 'front' organization."
-Intelligence in Terrorism Counteraction student information sheet from the US Army Intelligence School, June 1985.