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12/07/2005: "Propaganda of the Deed"
http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/08/cov_31feature2.html:
As I drove Stallman to the airport, I asked him if he was gratified by the fact that, whatever you call it -- free software or open source -- there's no denying that the campaign he began at MIT some 15 years ago is one of the hottest stories in computing today. He sighed. He is somewhat pleased, he said, but he is even more anxious. He feels that he is being shoved aside -- "that certain people are trying to rewrite history and deny me my place in the movement."
I am honored to follow Doctor Richard Stallman, the giant upon whose shoulders Open Source stands. When I say Open Source, I mean the same thing that Richard means when he says Free Software. There has been factionalism, but only because of personalities that no longer matter. -- Bruce Perens
"Our most effective lever has always been the "propaganda of the deed" -- Eric Raymond
Propaganda of the Deed is the belief that one decisive violent act can awaken individuals to take action. The idea arose after the invention of dynamite, which enabled an individual to cause severe damage. Actively endorsed by anarchist Johann Most, the concept fueled international terror during the end of the 19th century, with the assassinations of monarchs and heads of state. Anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley in 1901. link
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/anarchist.html
"That is why I am an anarchist."
http://armedndangerous.blogspot.com/2002_09_15_armedndangerous_archive.html
"The aftermath of 9/11 is a hard time to be an anarchist."
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=218
"The most important weapons of al-Qaeda and the rest of the Islamist terror network are the suicide bomber and the suicide thinker. The suicide bomber is typically a Muslim fanatic whose mission it is to spread terror; the suicide thinker is typically a Western academic or journalist or politician whose mission it is to destroy the West’s will to resist not just terrorism but any ideological challenge at all."
No Eric, it was the anarchists, and their "Propaganda of the Deed" (which you glorified) who originated suicide attacks.
