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Communist terrorism or communist terrorist can refer to:

Left-wing terrorism, terrorism by Marxist and other left-wing groups
Revolutionary terror, as practiced by Marxist organizations
Red Terror, a campaign of mass arrests and executions in Soviet Russia in 1918

In propaganda

Malayan Races Liberation Army, a combatant in the Malayan Emergency, referred to by the British as Communist terrorism
Malayan Communist Party forces involved in the second Communist Insurgency War
Viet Cong activity in South Vietnam
Generally, any Marxism inspired national liberation movements

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+'''Communist terrorism''' or '''communist terrorist''' can refer to:
-{{merge to|Red Terror}}
-{{Terrorism}}
-{{multiple issues|synthesis =January 2010|POV =January 2010}}
-{{Otheruses}}
-'''Communist terrorism''', state and dissident, is [[terrorism]] committed by various movements that claim adherence to the doctrines of [[Karl Marx]], both during a revolutionary struggle and during the consolidation of power after victory.<ref name=martin>{{cite book |title=Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives, and Issues |last=Martin |first=Gus |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=SAGE |location= |isbn=9781412970594 |page=44 |pages= |url=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=uJ6MeYq_FbkC |accessdate=}}</ref><ref name="Europe's red terrorists ">{{cite book|last1=Alexander|first1=Yonah |last2=Pluchinsky|first2=Dennis A. |title=Europe's red terrorists: the fighting communist organizations |edition=1st|date=1October 1992|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0714634883|page=183}}</ref>
+* [[Left-wing terrorism]], terrorism by Marxist and other left-wing groups
-Many Orthodox Communists have emphasized revolution over reform and offered a vision of the working classes sweeping away the capitalist system. Some of these communist movements and parties had adopted armed struggle and seen terrorism as a viable option; on the other hand some dissident leftist terrorist organisations, including some of those in Western democracies, had little faith in the working classes, believing them to have been corrupted and sometimes argued that "liberating violence" was necessary to spur the revolution on.<ref>Martin, pages 223-4</ref>
+* [[Revolutionary terror]], as practiced  by Marxist organizations
+* [[Red Terror]], a campaign of mass arrests and executions in Soviet Russia in 1918
+;In propaganda
+* [[Malayan Races Liberation Army]], a combatant in the Malayan Emergency, referred to by the British as ''Communist terrorism''
+* [[Malayan Communist Party]] forces involved in the second [[Communist Insurgency War]]
+* [[Viet Cong]] activity in South Vietnam
+* Generally, any Marxism inspired [[national liberation movement]]s
+{{Disambig}}
-==Origin of Revolutionary terror==
-{{merge to|Revolutionary terror}}
-German Social Democrat [[Karl Kautsky]]  trace the origins of [[revolutionary terror]] to the "[[Reign of Terror]]" of the [[French Revolution]].<ref name="Kautsky">{{Cite book |url=http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1919/terrcomm/index.htm |title=Terrorism and Communism |author=[[Karl Kautsky]] |year=1919 |chapter=Revolution and Terror |chapterurl=http://marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1919/terrcomm/ch01.htm |quote=Kautsky said: "It is, in fact, a widely spread idea that [[Terror]]ism belongs to the very essence of [[revolution]], and that whoever wants a revolution must somehow come to some sort of terms with terrorism. As proof of this assertion, over and over again the great [[French Revolution]] has been cited." (Translated by W.H. Kerridge)}}</ref><ref>[[The Gulag Archipelago]] by [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]]</ref>
-== Western perspectives on terrorism committed by groups claiming adherence to Communist ideology ==
-{{merge-to|Left-wing terrorism |discuss=Talk:Left-wing terrorism#Merge discussion}}
-Terrorism in the form of 'communist fighting organizations' which operated in western Europe was seen as a threat by NATO and also by the Italian, German and British governments.<ref name="Ciro Paoletti">{{cite book|last=Paoletti|first=Ciro |title=A military history of Italy |date=30 December 2007|publisher=Praeger Publishers|isbn=978-0275985059}}</ref> In recent years, there has been a marked decrease in such terrorism, which has been substantially credited to the end of the Cold War and the fall of the U.S.S.R.<ref>Wills, David C., [http://books.google.com/books?id=Q1S2cdu1escC&dq The first war on terrorism: counter-terrorism policy during the Reagan administration], p. 219, Rowman & Littlefield, 2003</ref> However, at its apogee, communism was argued by some to be the major source of international terrorism (whether inspired by the ideology or supported by its states).<ref name="books.google.com">Crozier, Brian, [http://books.google.com/books?id=qZIOs84I7dEC&pg Political victory: the elusive prize of military wars], p. 203, Transaction Publishers, 2005</ref>
-==See also==
-*[[List of designated terrorist organizations]]
-== Further reading ==
-* Deletant, Dennis (1999) ''Communist Terror in Romania'', C. Hurst & Co, ISBN 1850653860
-* Adelman, Jonathan (1984) ''Terror and Communist Politics: The Role of the Secret Police in Communist States'', Westview Press, ISBN 0865312931
-* Evgeni Genchev (2003) ''Tales from the Dark: Testimonies about the Communist Terror'', ACET 2003, ISBN 9549320014
-==References==
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-[[Category:Terrorism by form]]
-[[bg:Ляв тероризъм]]
-[[ka:კომუნისტური ტერორიზმი]]
-[[pt:Terrorismo de esquerda]]
-[[ru:Левый терроризм]]