Finally reached the point in the Red Brigades book where I fully disagree with where they're going and it was disappointing when I got there

It's clear what was going on for them, the development of an international policing apparatus meant that the window was closing on the kind of hyper-militant direct action that characterized the Italian class struggle in the late 70s

But because of the way ultra politics worked they had to portray being painted into a corner as an offensive move that they were universally supported in when I don't think the average person would've known about the Entebbe and Mogadishu counter-terrorism actions

The idea of the clandestine urban guerilla as the 'vanguard' of the struggle is potentially an interesting one but they treated the struggle as already being at the point of necessitating an international clandestine-guerrilla vanguard because they saw a revolutionary ethos in

wildcat actions, a trend common among spontaneist groups