Sure , but it also destroys your credibility , lowers your supporters , and decreases the target group of your message from those who share your opinion to only fanatics . To simply reduce this to fanaticism is to ignore the fact that their previous efforts had gone by without meaningful change . If what you said occurs losing support , those people were probably not going to add anything meaningful to your revolution anyway . Additionally , you are just speculating and in a very general sense on the reactions , but I suppose it ' s quite difficult to really measure that . The civilian attacks from MK were sporadic and infrequent . I can actually only think of two off the top of my head Andrew Zondo and Church Street , though I ' m sure there were others . It ' s not like there was a constant stream of attacks and some kind of genocide attempt .