According to AP, there were messages engraved on the casings in the Kirk shooting. They read:
- One read, “hey fascist! catch!” with an up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols.
- Another one read: “oh bella ciao bella ciao bella ciao ciao ciao,” Cox said.
- The third fired casing read: “if you read this you are gay lmao.”
My first thought is. Whoever killed Kirk was clearly inspired by Luigi. The writing on the casings just like Luigi did. The timing. It just makes sense.
Does this mean Luigi’s propaganda of the deed was successful? I think so. In any case, I wonder if this means there is more to come.
That’s not how any propaganda works, never mind “propaganda of the deed” - there’s a reason people talk about propaganda campaigns and not propaganda events. You need a lot of it before it actually starts working.
Assassination has always been a seriously risky form of POTD - as the old anarchists dicovered the really, really hard way.
Yeah, old anarchists were outright against it.
Also, campaign implies an organized effort, but these individual murders are anything but. Essentially what we got so far weren’t campaigns or even events necessarily, but mere spectacles. Momentary and fleeting, lasting until news cycles stop reporting on it and move on
This kind of unilateral shitfuckery have always created more problems for anarchists than anything else… they still blame an anarchist for starting WW1 for Christ’s sake - you’d think we’d be more vocal about our disapproval of it, but apparently, that’s a bridge too far for us.
What anarchist started WW1? Gavrilo Princip was a nationalist, not an anarchist. Inspired by anarchists and anarchist strategies, but he was a nationalist above all.
A lot of propaganda at the time blamed anarchists… and I’ve seen it repeated plenty of times - even in our history textbooks here in Aprtheid-era South Africa.