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The Liberal Left Opts for Terror
Authors:Anna Geifman
Affiliation:1. Department of History , Boston University , Boston , Massachusetts , USA;2. Department of Political Science , Bar-Ilan University , Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv , Israel annageifman@hotmail.com
Abstract:For a century, intellectual debate on political violence has been dominated by efforts to romanticize the extremist and to invest him with the aura of the altruistic “freedom fighter.” It is astonishing that in the post-9/11 era, the terrorist's image continues to remain habitually mystified and ennobled, while terror attacks are justified as self-defense. “Terrorist discourse” is indicative of the universality of the intellectual position of the Left with regard to terror, national discrepancies notwithstanding. The present article evaluates leftist liberals' attitudes towards terrorism in the 20th-century Russian Empire, Europe, the U.S., and especially Israel—one of the epicenters of terrorism today. The article proposes to examine psychological responses to terrorism in conjunction with a range of contemporary reactions to threats, acknowledged or displaced with an assortment of mental constructs and rationalizations.
Keywords:academic intellectuals  Constitutional Democrats (Kadets)  leftist liberals  modern terrorism  “new historians,” Russian State Duma  self-condemnation  Stockholm Syndrome  Zionism
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