Permanent revolution is a plan for the overthrow of capitalism
throughout the world, as envisioned by Bolshevik leader Leon
Trotsky in 1905. History of permanent revolution Marxist theory
from the days of Karl Marx had stated that the socialist
revolution would automatically happen some years after
capitalism and the bourgeoisie had triumphed over feudalism. It
would happen when the industrial proletariat, organized by the
party, overthrows capitalism in advanced industrial states. The
revolution, according to this theory, could not happen in
undeveloped countries like Russia in 1905 because they had not
yet reached the proper stage of development. Yet the left hoped
to start a revolution in Russia -- it almost succeeded in 1905
and did succeed in 1917. Trotsky was there to adjust Marxist
theory to real life. He argued for an immediate seizure of power
everywhere in order to telescope the bourgeois and socialist
revolutions into one seamless sequence. That was "permanent
revolution." Trotsky maintained that r