The Key to Social Change Was Political Freedom

People's will believed that political freedom was the key to social change. And political freedom was to be had by destroying the state, and most especially by killing the czar. The revolutionaries would kill a governor or a police officer, the state would retaliate. Guns were being pulled out of overcoats. Bombs were going off. There were shoot outs in the streets,. jail breaks from the prisons, raids on homes and offices. But the goal of people's will was not just kill em all. Ideologically, the rational for all this was an aggressive kind of anarchism. It needed to be attacked until it collapsed. Once this was done, the peasants would be free to self organize into ag