The victims were all “satisfied with the established order, all the accomplices and employees of Property and the State … there are no innocent bourgeois.”

- not Ward Churchill — anarchist bomber Emile Henry, justifying his actions circa 1893. He killed one person and injured 19, and is reported to regret that he did not kill more. Quoted in The Economist, August 20-26 issue.

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(The magazine holds that like the anarchist threat of over a century ago, radical Islamic terrorism will fade with time (although other terror movements may replace it). I would argue that there’s a major difference in scope between a fringe political movement and today’s radicals, who build their belief system on top of the structure provided by one of the world’s major religions.)

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