The Weather Underground

The Weather Underground is a magnificent example of the isomorphism between Communist philosophy and mass murder. Its members were mainly trendy rebels without a clue, with a few obvious psychopaths thrown in for good measure. The group protested the systematic slaugther of innocent civilians by systematically attacking innocent civilians (as well as their buildings, infrastructure, and so forth).

This clear doublethink was justified by things like changing definitions. Definitions are the guardians of rationality and the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration, so it’s no wonder that the Weather Underground decided that violence was living your white life in your white suburban house in your white community and ignoring all of the supposed turmoil that is going on around you. Why not just change all the definitions? Let’s just change “murder” to “happiness” and that way there won’t be any more murder.

The war dragged on for years, the efforts of this group, their terrorism, and their incoherent communiques notwithstanding. When the war ended, the group, lacking any sort of real cause or principle other than violence (and perhaps a vague “revolution,” presumably of the same kind that failed in the USSR and elsewhere), fell apart like any other set of contradictions. The most important lesson that they can teach us is that Communist philosophy, like any morality of death, will always result in mass murder, because it is a philosophy that holds that individuals have no rights, only collectives. For this reason, I was not the least bit surprised when Weather Underground leaders decided that mass murder would now be acceptable.