Guerrilla Warfare

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See Also: the Definition of Guerrilla Warfare in the Encyclopedia of Marxism.

Guerrilla Warfare [in Russia, 1906], by Vladimir Lenin

"At different stages of economic evolution, depending on differences in political, national cultural, living and other conditions, different forms of struggle come to the fore and become the principal forms of struggle....Today as a general rule guerrilla warfare is waged by the worker combatant.... Guerrilla warfare is an inevitable form of struggle at a time when the mass movement has actually reached the point of an uprising and when fairly large intervals occur between the "big engagements" in the Civil War.... It is not guerrilla actions which disorganize the movement, but the weakness of the party which is incapable of taking such actions under its control ."

See Also: Revolutionary Spain, by Karl Marx