ABSTRACT
Revolutionary-ideological terrorism invites tolerance of terrorism and terrorists in very particular social sectors, clearly discernible in socio-economic and cultural patterns. The intellectual's role in the support of German Red Army Faction (RAF) terrorism and the Italian Red Brigades as well as Lodge P2 support from the mighty politico-economic sector, and the very marginal justification by intellectuals of terrorism in Belgium represent a pool of support, though limited in scope. Separatist-nationalist terrorism recruits its support from the defined ethnic sectors it claims to be representing. Belgium is plagued mainly by a unidimensional type of terrorism, namely revolutionary-ideological, while Italy has had to cope with the challenge of various kinds of domestic terrorism, international terrorism, both European and Middle-Eastern, state-sponsored terrorism and narco-terrorism. Spanish, including Basque, concerns that terrorism might sabotage the process of democratization have helped not only to expand denunciation of terrorism but also to curb support for ETA.
