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Types of Terrorism
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Six Major Types
Nationalist
Religious
State-sponsored
Left-wing
Right-wing
Anarchist
Nationalist
Nationalist terrorists seek to form a separate state for their own national group, often by drawing attention to a fight for “national liberation” that they think the world has ignored.
Religious
Religious terrorists seek to use violence to further what they see as divinely commanded purposes, often targeting broad categories of foes in an attempt to bring about sweeping changes.
State-Sponsored
State-sponsored terrorist groups are deliberately used by radical states as foreign policy tools—as Hoffman puts it, as “a cost-effective way of waging war covertly, through the use of surrogate warriors or ‘guns for hire.’”
Left-Wing
Left-wing terrorists are out to destroy capitalism and replace it with a communist or socialist regime.
Because they see most civilians as suffering from capitalist exploitation, left-wing terrorists sometimes have limited their use of violence to avoid hurting the victims they say they want to save.
Left-wing terrorists sometimes focus instead on such tactics as kidnapping tycoons or bombing monuments.
Right-Wing
Right-wing terrorists are among the least organized terrorists, often associated with neo-Nazi street rioting in Western Europe, especially in the early 1980s. These groups, often dominated by skinheads, seek to do away with liberal democratic governments and create fascist states in their place.
Anarchist
From the 1870s until about 1920, anarchist terrorism was a major global phenomenon. Revolutionaries seeking to overthrow established governments launched a wave of bombings and assassinated a series of heads of state; one such victim was President William McKinley, killed in 1901 by a young Hungarian refugee influenced by anarchist sentiments.
Some experts see signs of a new interest in anarchist violence arising out of the recent wave of protests against globalization.