CONTEMPORARY MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS
  • Columbia
    • Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
  • Ethiopia
  • Greece
    • People's Revolutionary Struggle (ELA)
  • India
    • Students' Federation of India
  • Iran
    • MKO
  • Iraq
    • PKK
    • People's Mujahedeen
  • Peru
    • Shining Path?
    • Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
  • Turkey
    • MLKP-FESK
    • Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C)
HISTORICAL MARXIST REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS
  • Cuba
    • Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Most all, if not all, of these groups employ terrorism or physical insurrection.

From the Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo at Kyambogo University in Uganda ( http://www.itek.ac.ug/curriculum/culture/unit%2013/topics/sources.htm ):

"Marxism, i.e. communism is an ideology taught by Karl Marx. Communism’s major teaching was sharing the material benefits of society more evenly by preventing the exploitation of workers. Exploitation here means to abuse workers to greatly enrich the individual owners and managers of industry. To accomplish this, Marx proposed that we abolish private ownership of resources, such as land and industrial enterprises. Many of the messages of Jesus Christ also were aimed at having the rich share their wealth with the poor, and the early Christians practised common ownership and sharing. A main difference in the practise of Marx’s philosophy of communism and that of early Christianity was the modern communist use of violence to bring about the changes in the economic systems, whereas Jesus preached against the use of violence and said that we shared and treat each other fairly out of love."

I don't know if Marx actually engaged in physical violence. I suspect he rather pontificated on it. If he did then he was not a progressive, in spite of other dimenions of his insights that led to his legacy, for physical fighting was the more primitive era coming before economic fighting. The progressive step is towards reasoned fighting (looks more and more like dancing) where there is much less bloody conflict (a primary byproduct of physical fighting) and much less starvation (a primary byproduct of economic fighting).

The proposition of common ownership and sharing is an ideal that seems dead on arrival, because life requires choice, so competition. Perhaps humanity advances or regresses through successive stages of greater and greater awareness and action based in competition and collaboration together, indexed by the degree of diffusing inspired choosing. Creating global cataclysms that kill of major portions of humanity would be a tragic sidetrack in the evolution of more diffusive inspired choosing.

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