The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects Author_Farrell Dobbs opposing increased democratic rights

opposing increased democratic rights

drawing out the lessons for today

and how it developed as the international class struggle unfolded

The economic crisis produced a crisis of democracy itself

The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects Author_Farrell Dobbs opposing increased democratic rightsTrotsky's theory of the permanent revolution is one of the most important additions to the arsenal of Marxism. It was first developed by Trotsky in 1904, on the eve of the first Russian Revolution. At that time, all the tendencies of the Russian Social Democracy had the perspective of a bourgeois democratic revolution. Trotsky alone in 1905 put forward the idea that the Russian working class could come to power before the workers of Western Europe.