ABSTRACT
Radicalization is not a concept, nor a theoretical category, but one of these words that is used in ordinary life, or by experts, technocrats, journalists, etc., when they want to speak of those people that are ready to commit terrorist acts. In some cases, radicalized individuals or groups select one kind of targets – journalists, Jews, Catholic priests, for instance. In the early 1970s in France, there was a revolutionary leftist “maoïste” group that was radicalized and not far from progressing to terrorism. Their luck was that some very important intellectuals, including Jean-Paul Sartre or Michel Foucault were interested and concerned with talking to them, the leaders of this group had a relationship with external people that talked with them, and it has been one element that made them decide to finish with these tendencies of clandestine and violent action.
