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necessity of systematically using terrorism. Here are a few of them:
In reality the state is nothing but a machine for the suppression of one class
by another. Dictatorship is rule based directly on force and unrestricted by
laws... The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and
maintained through the use of violence by the proleteriat against the bour-
geoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws. 102
We are not at all opposed to political killing… Only in direct, immediate
connection with the mass movement can and must individual terrorist acts
be of value. 103
To become a power the class-conscious workers must win the majority to
their side. As long as no violence is used against the people there is no other
road to power. 104
Speaking at a workers' meeting, Lenin gave a terrifying statement of
how indispensable terrorism was to them:
If the masses do not rise up spontaneously, none of this will lead to anyt-
hing… For as long as we fail to treat speculators the way they deserve – with
a bullet in the head – we will not get anywhere at all. 105
One of the most important leaders of the October Revolution in Rus-
sia, Trotsky, says this to confirm Lenin's words:
But the revolution does require of the revolutionary class that it should atta-
RUSSIAN OPPRESSION
The oppression
experienced in the
Russian revolution
was reflected in
pictures.