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Trotsky's book, the first English edition of which bore the title The Defense of Terrorism, dismisses the notion of parliamentary democracy to govern Soviet Russia and defends the use of force against opponents of the revolution by the dictatorship of the proletariat and working class masses.
Terrorism came to be used by communists, both the state and dissident groups, in both revolution and in consolidation of power. [10] The doctrines of anarchism, Marxism, Marxism–Leninism and Maoism have all spurred dissidents who have taken to terrorism. [11] After World War I communist groups continued to use it in attempts to overthrow ...
In his book Inside Terrorism Bruce Hoffman offered an explanation of why the term terrorism becomes distorted: On one point, at least, everyone agrees: terrorism is a pejorative term. It is a word with intrinsically negative connotations that is generally applied to one's enemies and opponents, or to those with whom one disagrees and would ...
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The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution is a 2017 book written by activist and Trotskyist Tariq Ali, which focuses on the life of Russian Bolshevik revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. [1] [2]
This book was written in 2003 to address questions of human rights and humanitarian policy which arose as a result of the issues surrounding the War on Terror, particularly with regard to the US foreign policies of the time including the detention of terrorist suspects without trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. [2]
The book could be compared with George Lakoff's 1996 book Moral Politics, which aims to answer a very similar question. Sowell's book has been published both with and without the subtitle "Ideological Origins of Political Struggles". Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate calls Sowell's explanation the best theory given to date. [2]
"The Permanent Revolution" is a 1928 essay written by Leon Trotsky in response to criticism given by Soviet politician Karl Radek. The work was published in Russian by The Left Opposition after the expulsion of Trotsky from The Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927. It is a political theory book by Trotsky.