The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence

Download or read book The Red Brigades and the Discourse of Violence written by Marco Briziarelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the communicative practices of the Italian radical group Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse, or BR), the relationship the group established with the Italian press, and the specific social historical context in which the BR developed both its own self-understanding and its complex dialectical connection with the society at large. The BR’s worldview and the dominant ideology(ies) mediated by the press are treated as competing responses to structural issues of Italian history: the structural weakness of the nation state, the contradictions of an uneven economic development, and the consequent struggle of the bourgeois class to achieve hegemonic rule.