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- nasredin 8y ago"Despite being targeted by a string of communist terrorist attacks in the 1970s and 80s..." Using loaded terms in your writing is a good way to lose readers.
- uxp100 8y agoWould you prefer “far left militant” attacks?
- jnurmine 8y agoOne could say that e.g. the Red Army Faction, the Revolutionary Cells and the PFLP were far left terrorist groups motivated by and influenced by moderate to high degree by Marxism-Leninism. Simplifying that these particular groups were communist terror groups sounds accurate enough, given what they represented and what they believed in. However, there were others, and e.g. 2. June Movement were "anarchist". But if one were to clump together all of the terror groups involved, what should they be labelled? On the political continuum all these were pretty much on the far left. Not only that, the groups clearly sympathized with the USSR and its communist (Marxist-Leninist) ideology, and were supported in some way through the instruments of USSR (like KGB) or by their proxies (like Stasi of East Germany). Calling these groups "communist terror groups" is a rather descriptive term.