Of course, Hoffman never advocates blowing up anything or anyone. He's just making the information available. You know, freedom of expression and all of that. There are some fringe anti-abortionists out there who have decided to take the law into their own hands. These are exceptions rather than the rule, and Random House would never publish their violent advocacy.
Liberals have short and selective memories.
The use of violence was justified, many in the New Left comforted themselves, because theirs was a violence to end all violence, a liberating and righteous violence that would rid the world of a system that deformed and destroyed people. We shall pursue our own 'scorched earth' policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground-nonviolently. Hoffman was found dead in his apartment in April 1989. Hoffman, Woodstock Nation , 114. 10. Hoffman, Woodstock Nation , 115-116.