Permanent Revolution

[Zoroaster]

What's the difference between the theory of permanent revolution advocated by Marx and the theory advocated by Trotsky?

[Five Year Plan]

What's the difference between the theory of permanent revolution advocated by Marx and the theory advocated by Trotsky?

In Marx's writings, "permanent revolution" meant the working class was to organize and pursue its revolutionary political goals regardless of conditions or context. Trotsky's iteration (and those of other thinkers in the early 20th century) spoke of permanent revolution as a way of the working-class pursuing its political goals, even in conditions where bourgeois tasks still remained to be performed, and even in conditions where those tasks still remained to be performed because a feudal state still presided over society. With Trotsky's specific usage of the term, it assumed the connotation of the workers, rather than the bourgeoisie, overthrowing the pre-capitalist state in hopes that an international revolution would allow it to pursue its goals uninterruptedly all the way through socialism.

[Zoroaster]

Ok, thanks.