The Weather Underground Was a LOT Different Than the Red Army Faction
I resist the temptation of pathologized dassent in general. I think that psychological explanations, while they may be valid and explaind part of something, you have to keep in mind that these people put their money where their mouth was. And another thing i will add also is that the weather underground had a lot more jews in it than the red army faction. It wasn't ever intended to do anything. What did they ultimately accomplish? They killed ta security guard, basically. That was so, that was all they coablish.
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Growing up in the generation following the second world war, Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Ulrike Meinhof lead the West German militant Red Army Faction in a series of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations during the 1970s that led to the death of 35 people. Identifying with various leftist and communist causes including anti-imperialism, Maoism, and opposition to the Vietnam War, the group sought a break in their society from what they felt was a continuation of their parents’ generation of fascist government now under the control of what they saw as the American-led capitalist war machine. The group and their leaders in particular gained notoriety in the press and significant popularity amongst the youth of Germany, underscoring the generational divide that seemed to be growing in the shadow Nazi Germany’s defeat and subsequent de-Nazification process.
