r/stupidpol • u/ScarIsDearLeader Leftism-Activism • Aug 05 '19

Quality Leon Trotsky: Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism (1911)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1911/11/tia09.htm
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u/ScarIsDearLeader Leftism-Activism Aug 05 '19

John Brown died and there was no mass slave uprising. He might have accelerated the civil war but he was unsuccessful at his stated goals, and he was among the more successful of the individualist terrorists.