https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/slavo-zizek-presents-trotsky-terrorism-and-communism/
The title of this book is misleading for new readers – the “terrorism” it refers to is not the individual terrorism or terror attacks of small groups that the word conjures up today (though the prolific Trotsky wrote elsewhere about the problems of individual terrorism). It refers to state terror
Vladimir Lenin described state capitalism as a necessary, temporary, transitional phase for the backward Russian economy to develop a solid industrial foundation before achieving true socialism
Interview with Karl Marx, Chicago Tribune, January 5 1879: "Well, then, to carry out the principles of socialism do its believers advocate assassination and bloodshed?" "No great movement," Karl answered, "has ever been inaugurated Without Bloodshed."
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