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Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction by Ann Hansen, Margrit Schiller

cebolla's review

4.0

I watched a movie about the Red Army Faction a bunch of years ago and remember appreciating their existence but thinking that the leaders are a bunch of megalomaniacal (communist) assholes who would duplicate the system they were trying to take down. Schiller's book confirms this, seemingly without trying. She respects the leaders, but also portrays them as mean, arrogant, and super condescending. I guess some people get so focused on the ends that they stop giving a damn about the effects of their means.

I love me a good people's history and this book was no different. The only thing I didn't love was that the author didn't go very deep into her beliefs and seemed to go back and forth between wanting to be a radical participating in an armed struggle and a normal person leading a normal life. That doesn't really matter though, and I learned a lot from the book.