Marxism Opposes Terrorism
Date: Friday, July 08 @ 05:02:51 CDT
Topic: Socialism & Marxism
Many SP members and supporters have been shocked by the recent terrorist atrocities in London.
SP meetings around the country this week will be discussing the events in detail.
Below we have provided links to two articles written by Leon Trotsky putting the socialist case against terrorism which are of great relevance today.
Also read an introduction, What Socialists Say about Terrorism, by Peter Taaffe, General Secretary of the Socialist Party (England and Wales), written following the September 11 suicide attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Building in the USA in 2001. (From The Socialist, 5 October, 2001).
Why Marxists Oppose Individual Terrorism, by Leon Trotsky, first appeared in Der Kampf ("Struggle"), the theoretical monthly of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, which at that time claimed to base itself on Marxism.
The second article, The Bankruptcy of Terrorism, also by Leon Trotsky, first appeared in the Polish social democratic paper, "Przeglad Socyaldemokratylczny", in May 1909.
In addition we publish an excerpt from "Marxism Opposes Individual Terrorism" by Peter Taaffe, which relates the fundamental ideas dealt with in Trotsky's articles to the rise of terrorism in the 1970’s, and was first printed in the British "Militant," paper of the Militant tendency, the forerunner of the Socialist Party, in November 1975.
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