Secret police provoked revolutionary violence to justify their own existence

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Police provocateurs materially shaped revolutionary movements in Czarist Russia and Louis Napoleon’s France; Secret police historically self-financed through the crimes they policed.; State institutions secretly organized mob violence through the press (+1 more)

Related

• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism (similarity 0.85)
• Terror is defined by independence from opposition, not suppression (similarity 0.83)
• Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population. (similarity 0.82)
• Italian Communists read mounting repression as proof of revolution’s approach (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism #expands (0.88) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368