LEADERLESS RESISTANCE
In: Terrorism and political violence, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 80-95
ISSN: 0954-6553
THE "LEADERLESS RESISTANCE" CONCEPT HAS LONG BEEN A SUBJECT OF INTERNAL DEBATE WITHIN THE AMERICAN RADICAL RIGHT. IT EMERGED ORIGINALLY AS A PRESCRIPTION FOR IRREGULAR WARFARE AGAINST INVADING "COMMUNIST" TROOPS IN THE EARLY 1960'S. IN THE 1970'S AND EARLY 1980'S, IT WAS EMPLOYED BY A FEW OF THE MOST COMMITTED MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN RADICAL RIGHT AGAINST THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. THE TERM BECAME WIDELY KNOWN WITH THE PUBLICATION OF LOUIS BEAM'S "LEADERLESS RESISTANCE" IN 1992. IN THIS ARTICLE, THE AUTHOR TRACES THE HISTORY OF LEADERLESS RESISTANCE FROM ITS INCEPTION THROUGH ITS VARIOUS PERMUTATIONS IN THE DISPARATE IDEOLOGICAL CAMPS OF THE AMERICAN RADICAL RIGHT.