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Chapter 2 lays the historical and conceptual groundwork for the rest of the study. “Terrorism” as a term is unpacked and placed in historical context. The tactic of terrorism is explored both in its Robesperrian state form and its Blanquist anti-state form. The quintessential form that terrorism took in the 1970s, the “urban guerrilla”, is traced through Marxism-Leninism , Maoism and finally the writings of Carlos Marighella. A brief analysis of post-2001 theoretical approaches to terrorism is offered, as is the “standard terrorist morphology” which structures the majority of texts in this study.
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Darlington, J. (2018). A Short History of Terrorism as Concept and Tactic. In: British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77896-9_2
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