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| '''Communist terrorism''' or '''communist terrorist''' can refer to: | |||
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| '''Communist terrorism''', state and dissident, is ] committed by various movements that claim adherence to the doctrines of ], both during a revolutionary struggle and during the consolidation of power after victory.<ref name=martin>{{cite book |title=Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues |last=Martin |first=Gus |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=SAGE |location= |isbn=9781412970594 |page=44 |pages= |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJ6MeYq_FbkC |accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="Europe's red terrorists ">{{cite book|last1=Alexander|first1=Yonah |last2=Pluchinsky|first2=Dennis A. |title=Europe's red terrorists: the fighting communist organizations |edition=1st|date=1October 1992|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0714634883|page=183}}</ref> | |||
| * ], terrorism by Marxist and other left-wing groups | |||
| Many Orthodox Communists have emphasized revolution over reform and offered a vision of the working classes sweeping away the capitalist system. Some of these communist movements and parties had adopted armed struggle and seen terrorism as a viable option; on the other hand some dissident leftist terrorist organisations, including some of those in Western democracies, had little faith in the working classes, believing them to have been corrupted and sometimes argued that "liberating violence" was necessary to spur the revolution on.<ref>Martin, pages 223-4</ref> | |||
| * ], as practiced by Marxist organizations | |||
| * ], a campaign of mass arrests and executions in Soviet Russia in 1918 | |||
| ;In propaganda | |||
| * ], a combatant in the Malayan Emergency, referred to by the British as ''Communist terrorism'' | |||
| * ] forces involved in the second ] | |||
| * ] activity in South Vietnam | |||
| * Generally, any Marxism inspired ]s | |||
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| ==Origin of Revolutionary terror== | |||
| {{merge to|Revolutionary terror}} | |||
| German Social Democrat ] trace the origins of ] to the "]" of the ].<ref name="Kautsky">{{Cite book |url=http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1919/terrcomm/index.htm |title=Terrorism and Communism |author=] |year=1919 |chapter=Revolution and Terror |chapterurl=http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1919/terrcomm/ch01.htm |quote=Kautsky said: "It is, in fact, a widely spread idea that ]ism belongs to the very essence of ], and that whoever wants a revolution must somehow come to some sort of terms with terrorism. As proof of this assertion, over and over again the great ] has been cited." (Translated by W.H. Kerridge)}}</ref><ref>] by ]</ref> | |||
| == Western perspectives on terrorism committed by groups claiming adherence to Communist ideology == | |||
| {{merge-to|Left-wing terrorism |discuss=Talk:Left-wing terrorism#Merge discussion}} | |||
| Terrorism in the form of 'communist fighting organizations' which operated in western Europe was seen as a threat by NATO and also by the Italian, German and British governments.<ref name="Ciro Paoletti">{{cite book|last=Paoletti|first=Ciro |title=A military history of Italy |date=30 December 2007|publisher=Praeger Publishers|isbn=978-0275985059}}</ref> In recent years, there has been a marked decrease in such terrorism, which has been substantially credited to the end of the Cold War and the fall of the U.S.S.R.<ref>Wills, David C., , p. 219, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003</ref> However, at its apogee, communism was argued by some to be the major source of international terrorism (whether inspired by the ideology or supported by its states).<ref name="books.google.com">Crozier, Brian, , p. 203, Transaction Publishers, 2005</ref> | |||
| ==See also== | |||
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| == Further reading == | |||
| * Deletant, Dennis (1999) ''Communist Terror in Romania'', C. Hurst & Co, ISBN 1850653860 | |||
| * Adelman, Jonathan (1984) ''Terror and Communist Politics: The Role of the Secret Police in Communist States'', Westview Press, ISBN 0865312931 | |||
| * Evgeni Genchev (2003) ''Tales from the Dark: Testimonies about the Communist Terror'', ACET 2003, ISBN 9549320014 | |||
| ==References== | |||
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Revision as of 02:48, 12 November 2010
Communist terrorism or communist terrorist can refer to:
- Left-wing terrorism, terrorism by Marxist and other left-wing groups
- Revolutionary terror, as practiced by Marxist organizations
- Red Terror, a campaign of mass arrests and executions in Soviet Russia in 1918
- In propaganda
- Malayan Races Liberation Army, a combatant in the Malayan Emergency, referred to by the British as Communist terrorism
- Malayan Communist Party forces involved in the second Communist Insurgency War
- Viet Cong activity in South Vietnam
- Generally, any Marxism inspired national liberation movements
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