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Article Excerpt
Igor Primoratz's essay on terrorism is a peculiar contribution to a magazine of 'left political, social, and cultural commentary' because it either ignores or dismisses key premises of the left: that structures and communities, not just individual agents, are real and morally relevant things, and so are power and differences in power.
This is most obvious at the first premise of his argument and at the final illustration of his conclusion. There is, he says--without argument--evidence, or refutation of claims to the contrary, a category of persons who are 'innocent'. 'To be sure', he says, 'some terrorists claim that their victims aren't innocent'. I am not sure why Primoratz thinks only some terrorists believe that, but nowhere in his argument is there precision in such empirical claims, and...
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