Other long-term aims may be less clearly visualized: the goal may be to bring on the apocalypse (as with Aum Shinrikyo) or to glorify the actions of the “fighter” (some Italian right-wing groups in the 1970s) or to act as a catalyst for the forces of history (again the Russian social revolutionaries). Sometimes religious groups may seek to please a god or spiritual force, such as the Hindu Thugs, who sought to placate the goddess of suffering, Kali.
