I wrote a couple of things for her back in the day....
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Oh, yeah. The anarchists are attacking delegates physically and the Kos brats are talking about Whatever It Takes, meaning whatever they think they can get away with. Socialism is inherently murderous. When the university kids taste a little power and the exhilaration of crushing the Enemy there is no mercy because there is no sense of suffering, only moral righteousness and total power. The kiddies love Che because there's a little of Che in each and every one of them. Mostly they grow out of it. Some don't. Those who don't grow to have a taste for execution. Che certainly did.
These are cheery assassins smirking behind the anonymity of a keyboard, at least at the moment. When it's safe to come out, they will. And they will excuse acts of appalling cruelty and inhumanity with a pious reference to higher truth, just as they are excusing character assassination and the filthiest of lies at the moment, because they always have. It's all for something better, you see. A 17-year-old's life sacrificed for the Greater Good is justified. A few eggs must be broken to make an omelet. Only somehow the omelet never shows up, only the broken eggs.
But I think we're still in Wolfe's awkward stage. For now. It wouldn't hurt to purchase a little extra ammunition, though, against the day when the awkward stage is past. That sort of thing tends to come on well before the people in it are ready.
You did?
So did I. ;-)