There’s no perspective, actually. This isn’t a book that offers an analysis. The author states from the start that he doesn’t want to take a position and he stays true to that, at least in the 80% of the book that I’ve read so far.
Days of Rage narrates what happened. It doesn’t evaluate or judge. The author is way to the Left compared to me, which I notice, for example, in his wholesale acceptance of the Left’s narrative of race relations in the US. But he abstains from offering any judgment. You could absolutely read the book and conclude that the Weathermen, the BLA, the SLA, and all the rest of them were completely justified in everything they did. Or you could conclude the opposite.
The value of the book isn’t in its perspective, which it pointedly avoids giving. It’s in the extraordinary amount of research that Burroughs did. You could find all this information yourself but you’d have to dedicate years to seeking out all the books, records, interviews, etc.
Some of the groups Burroughs describes are more interesting than others. I was bored by the chapters on Puerto Ricans and enjoyed the ones about the Weathermen a lot more. You might see it differently, of course. But please don’t worry that you’d get brainwashed into any system of beliefs by this book. Burroughs wanted to give a comprehensive narrative of what happened and he definitely achieved that.
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“Days of Rage narrates what happened. It doesn’t evaluate or judge.”
It seemed like Burrough was motivated to write the book less by a desire to praise or condemn the various groups and more out of shear amazement that the violence during this period has dropped out of our cultural memory.
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This is true. He’s A LOT more willing than I’d ever be to recognize the grievances of these leftists as valid but that’s not the point. The value of the book is in creating a written record of this past that many have forgotten.
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“…more out of shear amazement that the violence during this period has dropped out of our cultural memory.” Yeah, and for the simple reason that the violent communist feminist arseholes became academics brainwashing gullible students ever since ;-D
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Downvotes?!? Did measured truth and reason bring awful hurty feelngs…
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I love your memes, oldcowboy3. Please keep them coming.
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LOL, okay Kid, I will take that as a request to not be quite so pointedly blunt. The problem is that I saw not only that racial/gender violence, but also the behavior of today’s grandmothers at Bo Diddley concerts and the like. And guys, especially those with scientific instincts, measure everything ;-D
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Must be the resident violent feminist communist arseholes.
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LOL, well, let’s at least hope they are not violent ;-D
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“You could find all this information yourself” this is debatable, considering how much of the information he obtained by personally interviewing people who were involved.
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That’s true, he got amazing interviews.
But the basics of the bombings, the murders,the kidnappings are not a secret. Yet there’s no discussion of any of it.
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They were not secret, but mistakes were made, including those who were responsible for murders.
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