Pre-1916 Lenin wasn't that crazy

[professor rat]

This 1905 thought is actually quite timely right now, I must admit.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/oct/31i.htm

To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife.