Beschreibung:
The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky's most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that dominated the 1920s and '30s. Trotsky's intention is "far away from any thought of defending terrorism in general". Rather, he seeks to promote an historical justification for the Revolution, by demonstrating that history has set up the 'revolutionary violence of the progressive class' against the 'conservative violence of the outworn classes'.
Introduction; 1. The Balance of Power 2. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat 3. Democracy 4. Terrorism 5. The Paris Commune and Soviet Russia 6. Max and......Kautsky 7. The Working Class and its Soviet Policy 8. Problems of the Organisation of Labour 9. Karl Kautsky, His School, and His Book; In Place of an Epilogue