[WS:] But it did trigger the dirty war before, no?
The point here is not that direct action *causes* anything - be it positive or negative - but that it usually does not matter more than a fart in the wind, and sometimes it provides a pretext for the repression of the left. But providing a pretext is far from causing anything, what cause that repression is the right's capacity to follow through on it, which they would do anyway even if the left radicalism did not provide them with any pretexts. The Weimar case is very instructive here - the rhetoric of the right was decidedly anti-Bolshevist but there were hardly any truly Bolshevist parties in Germany that could pose a real threat to the status quo. But the rightist were really after social democrats who actually wielded political power, and the anti-Bolshevist drivel was merely a pretext to attack the center-left that formed the backbone of democratic governments..
Wojtek
"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."