Terror is defined by independence from opposition, not suppression

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: Terror intensified as internal political opposition disappeared — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 901; Total terror emerges only after opposition is already defeated; Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368 (+2 more)

Related

• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism (similarity 0.89)
• Terrorism aims to provoke state repression that radicalizes the population. (similarity 0.88)
• Secret police provoked revolutionary violence to justify their own existence (similarity 0.83)
• Repression and war are twin hypotheses about power’s mechanisms (similarity 0.82)
• Italian Communists read mounting repression as proof of revolution’s approach (similarity 0.82)
• Blind terrorism provokes blind repression, polarizing and hardening a conflict (similarity 0.82)
• Revolutionary terror designed to discredit the state often backfires into sympathy for the state. (similarity 0.81)
• Terror intensified as internal political opposition disappeared (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Provoking state repression is the core mechanism of modern revolutionary terrorism #expands (0.80) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 368