The Left has Always Been This Way

a fringe glitch—it was the launchpad for Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, and revolutionary communist factions that decided persuasion was for suckers and armed struggle against the state was the real agenda.

A few highlights, for anyone too young to remember:

The Weather Underground formed in 1969 as the Marxist-Leninist offshoot of Students for a Democratic continue reading …