especially:the theory and practice of communism developed by or associated with Trotsky and usually including adherence to the concept of worldwide revolution as opposed to socialism in one country Trotskyist ˈträt-skē-ist ˈtrȯt-
While Stalin wanted “Socialism in one country”, Trotsky along with Lenin wanted worldwide Socialism. Stalin knew that his idea would fail if it was not brought out at exactly the right time. He waited until his campaign against Trotsky had brought down the popularity of Trotsky. Then Stalin...
The social revolution; The world revolution3 The permanent revolution "betrayed": "Socialism in one country": the end of world revolution; the revolution bureaucratized4 The revolutionary as man of On art, literature & philosophy; On the general & the particularConclusion (by way of an epilogue...
which had in effect renounced world revolution in favour of "socialism in one country". The attack on the theory came to epitomise the struggle against "Trotskyism". Today, however, with the collapse of Stalinism (and with it "socialism in one country"), Trotsky's theory of the permanent ...
Permanent Revolution v Socialism in One Country Trotsky argued that the Russian Revolution was just the first of the Communist revolutions which would eventually sweep the world as Marx predicted. The USSR had a duty to promote and support revolutions abroad. Stalin argued that socialism had to be...
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5) Marxist-Leninists, unlike Trotskyites, believe that socialism can be built and consolidated in one country. Marxist-Leninists, and not Trotskyites, supported and defended the former socialist Soviet Union. Leon Trotsky and the Trotskyites went to the lengths of asserting that the practice of...
In the transition to socialism the dictatorship of the proletariat is inevitable, but it is not exercised by an organisation which takes in all industrial workers. Why not? The answer is given in the theses of the Second Congress of the Communist International on the role of political parties ...
The Stalinists denied this, and held that they could create a socialist society in the USSR: The so-called "Socialism in One Country" strategy. A wilier political operator than his opponent, Stalin was able to edge Trotsky and his supporters out of political power in the Soviet Union, and,...
state capitalism, and they treated the New Economic Policy (NEP) as but a retreat toward capitalism. Considering the building of socialism in one country to be a sign of insularism and a departure from the principles of proletarian internationalism, they continued to advocate the adventuristic po...