The Psychology of Political Violence

Analyzing political violence is complex and often misconstrued, with empathy for perpetrators risking accusations of endorsement.
Political violence is presented as a culmination of social and economic injustices, akin to natural storms, rather than isolated acts.
Perpetrators (Attentäters) are often individuals with heightened sensitivity to social wrongs, driven by deep suffering and a sense of justice, not inherent cruelty or insanity.
The true causes of such acts are societal inequities, oppression, starvation, and the general misery human beings are made to endure.
Accusations against Anarchists for acts of violence are frequently fabricated by the capitalist press and police to mask their own failings or to suppress new ideas.
Historical examples (e.g., Mazzinians, Fenians, Russian Terrorists, Czolgosz, Averbuch, Berkman, Vaillant, Caserio, Angiolillo, Bresci) demonstrate that desperate circumstances, irrespective of specific political affiliations, drive individuals and groups to violence.
Anarchism, or any social theory that promotes a conscious social unit, may act as a catalyst for rebellion, but it is the unbearable conditions, not the doctrine itself, that compel sensitive natures to violent protest.
Political acts of violence are minuscule compared to the systemic, wholesale violence perpetuated by capital and government.
Resistance to tyranny is portrayed as a fundamental human ideal, an inevitable response to intolerable wrongs, not an anti-social impulse.
The ultimate cause of political violence lies not in specific political convictions but in the depths of human nature reacting to profound and widespread injustice.