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Adnan Oktar (Harun Yahya) 247

propagated the idea that "if there were no struggle and opposition,
everything would stay as it is." In another place he said, "Force is the
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midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one." By saying
this, he called people to violence, war and bloodshed in order that they
could develop.

The first to apply Marx's theory in the realm of politics was Lenin.
Fostering the idea that "progress comes about as a result of the con-
flict of opposites", Lenin advocated that people with opposing ideas
should be in constant conflict. Lenin also repeatedly stated that this
conflict would require bloodshed, that is, terrorism. A piece by Lenin

titled "Guerrilla Warfare" which was first published in Proletary in
1906, eleven years before the Bolshevik Revolution, shows the terrorist
methods he had adopted:

The phenomenon in which we are interested is the armed
struggle. It is conducted by individuals and by small groups.
Some belong to revolutionary organisations, while others (the
majority in certain parts of Russia) do not belong to any revo-
lutionary organisation. Armed struggle pursues two different
aims, which must be strictly distinguished: in the first place,
this struggle aims at assassinating individuals, chiefs and
subordinates in the Army and police; in the second place, it

aims at the confiscation of monetary funds both from the gov-
ernment and from private persons. The confiscated funds go
partly into the treasury of the party, partly for the special pur-
pose of arming and preparing for an uprising, and partly for
the maintenance of persons engaged in the struggle we are
describing. 38

In the 20 th century, one of the most well-known ideologies to
oppose communism was fascism. The interesting thing is that although
fascism declared itself opposed to communism, it believed just as
much as communism did in the concept of struggle. Communists