Italian Communists read mounting repression as proof of revolution’s approach

Evidence

It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed conflict by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transform the political situation of the country into a military situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things. … Marighela’s essential philosophy was that a resort to blind terrorism would inevitably provoke the forces of law and order into an equally blind repression, which in turn would lead to a backlash by the hitherto uncommitted, polarise the situation into two extreme camps and make impossible any dialogue of compromise by eradicating the “soft centre”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368; Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent; Italian elites saw the factories occupation as a near-revolutionary moment that was not seized — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1679

Related

• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism (similarity 0.83)
• Terror is defined by independence from opposition, not suppression (similarity 0.82)
• Secret police provoked revolutionary violence to justify their own existence (similarity 0.82)
• Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent #corroborates (0.95)
• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism #exemplifies (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368