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10.46- The Permanent Revolution

Revolutions

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Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution

Trotsky thought the vast majority of peasants would support a proletarian government. The workers must stay in power and use that state power to advance russia towards socialism, he said. Drotsky was not insensible to the difficulties that might obstruct this one sustained push. And it could never stop at the borders of russia. It must absolutely be carried out to the rest of europe and the world.

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