Despre terorism și comunism în viziunea lui Karl Kautsky și a lui Lev Troțki
About terrorism and communism in the vision of Karl Kautsky and Leon Trotsky
Author(s): Liviu-Marius Bejenaru, Alina IlincaSubject(s): Political history, Social history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: communism; political terror; Karl Kautsky; Leon Trotsky; political repression;
Summary/Abstract: Since its inception, the Bolshevik dictatorship has been strongly criticized by important representatives of European Social Democracy. One of these was Karl Kautsky. His book, Terrorism and Communism. A contribution to the natural history of revolution, is a critique of the Leninist view of the use of terror as a means of government. A year later, appeared the book Terrorism and Communism. A reply to Karl Kautsky, written by Leon Trotsky. For Trotsky, ”the man who repudiates terrorism in principle must reject all the idea of the political supremacy of the working class and its revolutionary dictatorship and thus repudiates the Socialist Revolution”.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXX/2022
- Issue No: 3-4
- Page Range: 41-55
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Romanian
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