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ments by Marx and Engels to the effect that violence must not
be neglected on the road to proletarian rule were regarded as
their guide.

Abdullah Öcalan also adopted those views and suggested
the indispensability of violence, setting these views out as fol-
lows in his book The Role of Force in Kurdistan:

…By implementing the guerilla war with the active war,
we will try to destroy the military superiority of our enemy
and make them withdraw even more and increase the speed
of the development of the revolution in Turkey. In this
tragic phase of equilibrium, if the guerilla war and the
active war going on in Kurdistan is supported by a devel-
oped revolutionary war in Turkey as well and if a prole-

tariat and civil uprising come up in Turkey including
major cities, this rebellion could be extended until Kur-
distan and the bourgeois army could be dissolved with the
civil uprising in Turkey and Kurdistan, and thus the polit-
ical superiority of the revolution could be turned into mil-
itary superiority, the rule of the bourgeois could be over-
thrown and the revolution could thus be brought to vic-
tory… 11

Öcalan, wishing to see a "dictatorship of the proletariat"
against the "bourgeoisie", and stating that this is only possible
through "revolution" and "terror", describes the ideals of Marx
and the policies of Lenin. Lenin describes his ideal revolution
as follows:

A bourgeois revolution is absolutely necessary in the inter-
ests of the proletariat. The more complete, determined, and
consistent the bourgeois revolution, the more assured will
the proletariat's struggle be against the bourgeoisie and

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