Alex Macartney on Right to Violence & the Japanese Left

Episode 05 - Sam Timinsky and Joy Block talk with Alex Macartney, teaching fellow in Japanese & German History at Georgetown University. Also listen to excerpts of a talk he gave about two "Red Army" movements that helped define international Left-wing violence in the 1960s - one in Japan and the other in West Germany. Macartney discusses the logic that made both groups choose to practice political violence, and draws attention to global developments, transnational connections, and gendered violence.