The Good Terrorist | Literary Precedents

The Good Terrorist Literary Precedents

A number of contemporary authors have explored the breakup of active political groups. However, Lessing's book remains groundbreaking. Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's work appears not only as essential reading material for the serious "professional" but as necessary background to the understanding of the Communist philosophies. It is telling that Alice admits that she holds the men in high regard but has not really read their works.