French historian Sophie Wahnich ( French ) distinguishes between the revolutionary terror of the French Revolution and modern day Islamic terrorism and the September 11 attacks : Revolutionary terror is not terrorism . To make a moral equivalence between the Revolution 's year II and September 2001 is historical and philosophical nonsense . ... The violence exercised on 11 September 2001 aimed neither at equality nor liberty . Nor did the preventive war announced by the president of the United States . In his article " The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna " in the '' Neue Rheinische Zeitung '' ( No. 136 , 7 November 1848 ) , Karl Marx wrote that there is only one means to shorten , simplify and concentrate the murderous death throes of the old society and the bloody birth pangs of the new , only one means — revolutionary terrorism ( the term terrorism used here is not to be confused with the modern meaning of the term , but rather having the same meaning as the word terror in the sense in which it is used in this article )
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Revolutionary terror