Extremist Politics

Extreme Left-Wing: groups that want to bring about change through violent revolution rather than
through established political processes. This category also includes secular left-wing groups that
rely heavily on terrorism to overthrow the capitalist system and either establish “a dictatorship of
the proletariat” (Marxist-Leninists) or, much more rarely, a decentralized, non-hierarchical political
system (anarchists). [START 2012]
Single Issue: groups or individuals that obsessively focus on very specific or narrowly-defined
causes (e.g., anti-abortion, anti-Catholic, anti-nuclear, anti-Castro). This category includes groups
from all sides of the political spectrum.[START 2012]
Religious: groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers, impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists), forcibly insert religion into the political sphere (e.g., those who seek to politicize religion, such as Christian Reconstructionists and Islamists), and/or bring about Armageddon (apocalyptic millenarian cults; 2010: 17). For example, Jewish Direct Action, Mormon extremist, Jamaat-al-Fuqra, and Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) are included in this category. [START 2012]
----at no point has any START study defined persons "suspicious of centralized federal authority" and "reverent of individual liberty" as terrorists. Instead, we assigned ideological classifications only to groups that have already carried out completed or attempted terrorist attacks. This report is based on START's Global Terrorism Database which defines terrorism as "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation." START 2012]
== Rhizomata ==
Politics; Terrorism; Pseudo-Philosophy; Pseudo-intellectuality; Hate; Hate politics
Category:Politics