Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
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> Given the environment of the 1960s and the utter barbarity of imperialist
> aggression in Vietnam, and the climate of the time, I can understand the
> Weather Underground, I don't agree with their tactics, but I can *understand
They saw politics in moral terms, which blinded them to actuality. It was a _moral_ obligation to oppose imperialism. So they went out and threw bricks to clease their souls. Myantipathy to moralistic politics goes way back, though this is not quite how I formulated it then.
Carrol