Revolutionary Groups Summary

This article looks over the revolutionary groups and their use of violence. Although these revolutionary groups are considered activists just like terrorist groups Sommier states that they also try to justify their methods and make references to their struggles. Looking at the development of the group you see the leftist terrorist groups taking a relationship between violence and politics.
In a way this was a refresher on what happen in 1960’s – 1970’s, but I don’t think I ever learned that the protests in 1968 were generated and born from campuses. Most of those people being young working class and students. Sommier says one of the focuses was on the fear of losing class status, due to the massification of the student’s population and the increase in diplomas. I think this is interesting to hear from but also believable. Today the college is accepted out of all high school graduates and know it you should at …show more content…
That being an occasion for diverse groups and foreign delegations to come together and consider different forms of solidarity. Reading this it almost made it sound like they would find other ways to act and protest instead of violence if they are all coming together that maybe they would think of a better way to handle their ideologies. But no, they just came up with inspiration for both vigorous demonstrations and acts that drew on guerilla warfare.
Sommier talked about incorporating music to their organizations. This made me think of past readings but it was interesting to see them use Bod Dylan. She points out that one of Bob Dylan songs and made it focus on two different issues. Those issues being the central role of the black American struggle for equality and the role of youth as a political vanguard. Though they make two different points I don’t know much about Bob Dylan’s music, though I never thought of him to be singing about certain problems that activists protest