Vocabulary Flashcards: Political Violence and Minorities vs. Majorities

Vocabulary flashcards covering key historical figures, political offenders, terminology, and concepts from the lectures on the psychology of political violence and mass society.

Attentäter

A political offender or perpetrator of a violent political protest, described as possessing super-sensitiveness to social injustice and suffering.

M. Hamon

The author of 'Une Psychologie du Militaire Professionnel' who defined the ideal type of Anarchist as possessing a spirit of revolt, love of liberty, keen curiosity, and missionary zeal.

Juan Rull

A Spanish gang-leader condemned to death after evidence exposed that his gang of police bomb throwers, rather than Anarchists, committed acts of violence in Spain.

Haymarket Riot

The tragedy of November 11, 1887, in Chicago where Anarchists were judicially executed as victims of a press and police conspiracy.

Leon Czolgosz

An American-born youth with sensitive social consciousness who committed a political act of violence against the U.S. President on September 6, 1901.

Henry Clay Frick

The Chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company who hired Pinkerton thugs and fortified the steel works to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers during the 1892 Homestead strike.

Alexander Berkman

An Anarchist who attempted the life of Henry Clay Frick in response to the slaughter of eleven steel workers during the 1892 Homestead strike.

Auguste Vaillant

An Anarchist who exploded a bomb in the Paris Chamber of Deputies in 1894 to protest economic inequality, poverty, and capital exploitation.

Santa Caserio

An Anarchist who assassinated French President Carnot after Carnot refused to commute Auguste Vaillant's death sentence.

Canovas del Castillo

The Prime Minister of Spain responsible for ordering the brutal torture of trade-unionists and Anarchists at the Montjuich bastille, later shot to death in 1897.

Angiolillo

An Italian editor and compositor who assassinated Spanish Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo at Santa Agueda in 1897 after witnessing the scars of Montjuich torture victims.

Gaetano Bresci

An Italian weaver from Paterson, New Jersey, who contributed his savings of 100 dollars to the paper 'La Questione Sociale' and assassinated King Umberto at Monza on July 29, 1900.

Madar Sol Dhingra

A Hindu political offender who killed Sir Curzon Wyllie in response to British colonial tyranny and rule in India.

Direct Action

The logical and consistent method of Anarchism involving persistent economic and individual resistance against shop authority, law, and moral codes.

The Compact Majority

A term attributed to Dr. Stockman describing the unreasoning mass spirit that lacks originality and acts as a dangerous obstacle to truth and innovation.