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The Defence of Terrorism (Routledge Revivals) - Terrorism and Communism (Hardcover)
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The Defence of Terrorism (Routledge Revivals) - Terrorism and Communism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military
train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky's
most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that
dominated the 1920s and '30s. Trotsky's intention is "far away from
any thought of defending terrorism in general". Rather, he seeks to
promote an historical justification for the Revolution, by
demonstrating that history has set up the 'revolutionary violence
of the progressive class' against the 'conservative violence of the
outworn classes'. The argument is developed in response to the
influential Marxist intellectual Karl Kautsky, who refuted
Trotsky's 'militarisation of labour' and Lenin's wholesale
rejection of a 'bloodless revolution'. The introduction, written
for the second edition of 1935, presents Trotsky's reflections on
the similarities between Kautsky and the burgeoning British Labour
Party: specifically, it recapitulates Trotsky's belief that
revolution conducted according to the norms of Parliamentarianism
is no revolution at all.
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