Oh, you meant the Bolshevism. Well I don't know about Lenin personally, but a lot of Russian revolutionaries in general have been proudly calling themselves terrorists.
Anyway, after the Bolsheviks seized power, they justified the Red Terror by the threat of terrorism (it officially started after one of their leaders was assassinated).
They were also creating fake terrorist organizations to catch the mentioned real old school terrorists from rival ideologies (Operation Trust).
Later, during the show trial era, the usual charge was a participation in a secret (and non-existent) anti-Soviet terrorist organization, in addition to being a foreign (British, German, Polish, Japanese) spy.
A lot of this is reflected in the plot of 1984 where Winston is recruited (and then recruits his gf) into a fake terrorist group to fight the Party by any means.
Unfortunately, I don't have the quote handy, but yes, Lenin was quite blunt about his aims and methods. The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is another thing he was quite in favour of, iirc.
Just another "When somebody tells you what they are, believe them" one, I think.
One of the first examples of what happens when a terrorist insurgency wins
Elaborate, comrade.
Lenin was a self-admitted terrorist, was he not?
Oh, you meant the Bolshevism. Well I don't know about Lenin personally, but a lot of Russian revolutionaries in general have been proudly calling themselves terrorists.
Anyway, after the Bolsheviks seized power, they justified the Red Terror by the threat of terrorism (it officially started after one of their leaders was assassinated).
They were also creating fake terrorist organizations to catch the mentioned real old school terrorists from rival ideologies (Operation Trust).
Later, during the show trial era, the usual charge was a participation in a secret (and non-existent) anti-Soviet terrorist organization, in addition to being a foreign (British, German, Polish, Japanese) spy.
A lot of this is reflected in the plot of 1984 where Winston is recruited (and then recruits his gf) into a fake terrorist group to fight the Party by any means.
Unfortunately, I don't have the quote handy, but yes, Lenin was quite blunt about his aims and methods. The "dictatorship of the proletariat" is another thing he was quite in favour of, iirc.
Just another "When somebody tells you what they are, believe them" one, I think.