1.The Pedagogy of Intolerance
The Revolutionary Vocation
The "Binary Code" Mentality
Political Violence and Social Marginality
2.The Sacralization of Politics
The "Fanaticism of a New Religion"
The Revolutionary Sect and the Obsession with Purity
Daily Life in a Revolutionary Sect
The Red Brigades' Organization Plan
The Blood Crime and Its "Story"
Shedding Blood and the Role of the Revolutionary Sect
The Detachment from the Surrounding World
4.The Genesis of the Red Brigades
The Red Brigades' Social Roots
The "Cultural Lag" Theory
When Were the Red Brigades Born?
The Red Brigades: "Imbeciles" or Real Revolutionaries?
Antonio Gramsci and the "Hour of Redemption"
The Italian Communist Party's Role in the Genesis of the Red Brigades
An Oxymoron: The "Leninist-Reformist" Party
5.The Masters of the Red Brigades
Illustrious Predecessors: Thomas Muntzer
John of Leiden, King and Revolutionary
The English Revolution and the Puritan Movement
The French Revolution and the Jacobin Experiment
Babeuf: "The world has plunged into chaos"
Karl Marx's Pantoclastic Dream
The Revolutionary Tradition of Russian Populism
6.The Purifiers of the World in Power
Lenin and State Terrorism
The Bolshevik Revolution and the "Victims of the Victims"
The Gulag, or The Promise Kept
Mao and the Myth of the "New Man"
Not a Conclusion: Portrait of a Red Brigadist.
