Dynamite club: the anarchists [France since 1871]

Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::HistóriaIn this class Professor John Merriman talks about anarchism in France and about the life and death of Émile Henry, who represents some aspects of the origin of modern terrorism in late nineteenth-century Paris. Unlike syndicalists and other leftists, anarchists seek to destroy the state rather than to capture state power for themselves. Émile Henry along with other radicals was a precursor of the modern practice of terrorism in their individualism and their indiscriminate choice of civilian targets. The consequences of state terrorism overshadow the terrifying consequences of individual acts of terroris