Steven Zhou

The constant clamour over Muslim extremism since 9/11 makes it hard to recall the days when terrorism and revolution were practically interchangeable terms. The “r-word” has always retained some tenuous ­connection with hardcore left-wing politics in a connotative way, and groups such as Germany’s Baader Meinhof gang (later the Red Army Faction) of the 1970s and ’80s were just left-wing groups that insisted on the violent expression of revolutionary…