16 Facts About Permanent revolution

Permanent revolution is the strategy of a revolutionary class pursuing its own interests independently and without compromise or alliance with opposing sections of society.

Trotsky's permanent revolution is an explanation of how socialist revolutions could occur in societies that had not achieved advanced capitalism.

Permanent revolution opposed the socialism in one country principle, stating that socialist revolutions needed to happen across the world in order to combat the global capitalist hegemony.

Permanent revolution perfected the terror by substituting permanent war for permanent revolution.

Permanent revolution fed the egoism of the French nation to complete satiety but demanded the sacrifice of bourgeois business, enjoyments, wealth, etc.

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For Marx, permanent revolution involves a revolutionary class continuing to push for and achieve its interests despite the political dominance of actors with opposing interests.

Marx's most famous use of the phrase permanent revolution is his March 1850 Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League.

Permanent revolution's audience is the proletariat in Germany, faced with the prospect that "the petty-bourgeois democrats will for the moment acquire a predominant influence", i e temporary political power.

However, at no stage does Marx make the central claim with which Trotsky's conception of permanent revolution is concerned, i e that it is possible for a country to pass directly from the dominance of the semi-feudal aristocrats, who held political power in Russia in the early part of the 19th century, to the dominance of the working class, without an interceding period of dominance by the bourgeoisie.

Leon Trotsky's conception of permanent revolution is based on his understanding—drawing on the work of fellow Russian Alexander Parvus—that a Marxist analysis of events begins with the international level of development, both economic and social.

Permanent revolution's position was put forward in his essay entitled The Permanent Revolution which can be found today in a single book together with Results and Prospects.

Since the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, the theory of permanent revolution has been maintained by the various Trotskyist groups which have developed since then.

Permanent revolution further argues that the use of Marxist concepts by such elements is not genuine, but is the use of Marxism as an ideology of power.

Cayan argues that the permanent revolution was the revolution considered for Germany by Marx and Engels and this permanent revolution was not a stageless, but a stagewise revolution theory.

However, the permanent revolution of Gottschalk and his supporters is a stageless or a one-stage revolution.

Tagore argued that the theory of permanent revolution has nothing to do with Trotskyism, but it is pure Marxism and Leninism.