Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl KautskyTrotsky and Slavoj Žižek defend revolutionary violence Written in the white heat of revolutionary Russia’s Civil War, Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism is one of the most potent defenses of revolutionary dictatorship. In his provocative commentary to this new edition the philosopher Slavoj Žižek argues that Trotsky’s attack on the illusions of liberal democracy has a vital relevance today. |
Contents
Foreword by Slavoj Žižek | |
Chronology | |
Preface by H N Brailsford | |
The Balance of Power | |
Democracy | |
Terrorism | |
The Paris Commune and Soviet Russia | |
Marx and Kautsky | |
The Working Class and its Soviet Policy | |
Problems of the Organization of Labour | |
Karl Kautsky his School and his Book | |
In Place of an Epilogue | |
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