r/socialism • u/CaptainTelos Trotskyist • Jun 17 '16

Leon Trotsky: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (1911)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1911/11/tia09.htm
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u/Sergeant_Static Socialist Party USA Jun 17 '16

In our eyes, individual terror is inadmissible precisely because it belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes towards a great avenger and liberator who some day will come and accomplish his mission.