Talk:Prince John/@comment-5078752-20131111152149/@comment-1672596-20180614210234

@Gleek:D: Actually, he came up with the "theory" specifically to orchestrate a riot. He never had good intentions with communism. In fact, how about I quote some stuff of what exactly he had in mind for communism and what exactly they will do once they were at the helm as he put it:


 * "There is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror."-Marx, Karl, “The Victory of the Counterrevolution in Vienna”, Neue Rheinische Zeitung, November 1848.
 * "Once we are at the helm, we shall be obliged to reenact the year 1793…"-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute
 * "The vengeance of the people will break forth with such ferocity that not even the year 1793 enables us to envisage it."-Marx-Engels Gesamt-Ausgabe, vol. vi pp 503–505, final issue of Neue Rheinische Zeitung, May 18, 1849. Quoted in Thomas G. West, Marx and Lenin, The Claremont Institute

The year 1793 he was referring to was Robespierre's Reign of Terror, which involved many people losing their lives to the Guillotine and pretty much the reason "terrorism" is even a term. Taking into account Vendee, and in particular what Commander Louis Grignon infamously stated about how even fellow Republicans are to be shot on sight, that's probably not even the only thing Marx had in mind as well.