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Terrorism and Communism

Terrorism and Communism
Leon Trotsky Original title Terrorismus und Kommunismus: Anti-Kautsky (German, 1920)

Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky is a book by Soviet Communist Party leader Leon Trotsky. First published in German in August 1920, the short book was written against a criticism of the Russian Revolution by the same title published the previous year in Vienna, Austria by prominent Marxist Karl Kautsky.


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“No one yet has learned to drive a locomotive sitting in his study.”

Source: Terrorism and Communism (1920), Ch. 7, p. 101

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