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Introduction | |
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The Pedagogy of Intolerance | |
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The Revolutionary Vocation | |
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Violence as the Only Way | |
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The �Binary Code� Mentality | |
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Political Violence and Social Marginality | |
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Eschatological Politics | |
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The Sacralization of Politics | |
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The �Fanaticism of a New Religion� | |
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Radical Catastrophism | |
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The Revolutionary Sect and the Obsession with Purity | |
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The Hatred of Reformists | |
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Toward the Bloodshed | |
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Daily Life in a Revolutionary Sect | |
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The Red Brigades' Organization Plan | |
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The Blood Crime and Its �Story� | |
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The Path to Bloodshed | |
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Shedding Blood and the Role of the Revolutionary Sect | |
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The Detachment from the Surrounding World | |
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The Genesis of the Red Brigades | |
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The Red Brigades' Social Roots | |
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The �Cultural Lag� Theory | |
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When Were the Red Brigades Born? | |
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The Red Brigades: �Imbeciles� or Real Revolutionaries? | |
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Antonio Gramsci and the �Hour of Redemption� | |
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The Italian Communist Party's Role in the Genesis of the Red Brigades | |
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An Oxymoron: The �Leninist-Reformist� Party | |
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The Masters of the Red Brigades | |
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Illustrious Predecessors: Thomas M�ntzer | |
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John of Leiden, King and Revolutionary | |
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The English Revolution and the Puritan Movement | |
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The French Revolution and the Jacobin Experiment | |
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Babeuf: �The world has plunged into chaos� | |
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Karl Marx's Pantoclastic Dream | |
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The Revolutionary Tradition of Russian Populism | |
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The Purifiers of the World in Power | |
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Lenin and State Terrorism | |
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The Bolshevik Revolution and the �Victims of the Victims� | |
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The Gulag, or The Promise Kept | |
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Mao and the Myth of the �New Man� | |
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The Cambodian Revolution | |
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Not a Conclusion: Portrait of a Red Brigadist | |
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Appendix: Red Brigades and Black Brigades | |
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A Note on Method | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index of Names | |