Category: Politics
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Slavoj Žižek presents ‘Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky’ by Leon Trotsky
Terrorism and Communism by Leon Trotsky, with an incisive commentary by Slavoj Žižek, stands as a pivotal text in revolutionary literature, emerging from Russia’s Civil War. Written in 1920, Trotsky’s work is a fervent defence of the Bolshevik use of force and terror as essential instruments for the establishment and preservation of a socialist state.…