The permanent revolution, in the Marxian sense, means that the complete, decisive, and radical solution of the tasks of the democratic revolution is conceivable only through the dictatorship of the proletariat, which, having become the leader of the nation, also and above all of the peasant masses, puts on the order of the day the tasks of the socialist revolution.
— Leon Trotsky Modern

Russian revolutionary

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The Permanent Revolution

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1929

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Shocking

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https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/pr-intro.htm

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