Editing Leon Trotsky (section)

=== Permanent Revolution ===
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[[File:Diego rivera Commies.jpg|thumb|A [[Diego Rivera]] mural (''[[Man, Controller of the Universe]]'') depicts Trotsky (right, grey suit) with [[Karl Marx|Marx]] (centre, white beard) and [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] (behind Marx), presenting them as champions of the workers' struggle.]]
Permanent Revolution theory holds that in countries with delayed [[bourgeois democratic revolution|bourgeois democratic development]], these tasks can only be accomplished by establishing a workers' state, which inevitably involves inroads against capitalist property. Thus, bourgeois democratic tasks transition into [[proletariat|proletarian]] ones. Though closely associated with Trotsky, the call for "Permanent Revolution" first appeared in [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]' March 1850 [https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/03/address-league.htm Address] of the Central Committee to the [[Communist League]]:
{{Blockquote|It is our interest and our task to make the revolution permanent until all the more or less propertied classes have been driven from their ruling positions, until the proletariat has conquered state power and until the association of the proletarians has progressed sufficiently far—not only in one country but in all the leading countries of the world—that competition between the proletarians of these countries ceases and at least the decisive forces of production are concentrated in the hands of the workers. ... Their battle-cry must be: '''The Permanent Revolution'''.}}
Trotsky's conception, drawing on Russian Marxist founder [[Georgy Plekhanov]], argued that in "backward" countries, the bourgeoisie itself could not achieve bourgeois democratic tasks. Trotsky developed this with Alexander Parvus in 1904–1905. Relevant articles were collected in Trotsky's ''[[1905 (book)|1905]]'' and ''Permanent Revolution'' (which includes his essay "[[Results and Prospects]]"). Some Trotskyists argue the state of the [[Third World]] demonstrates capitalism offers no way forward for underdeveloped countries, proving the theory's central tenet.<ref>{{cite web|title=The mass uprising in Tunisia and the perspective of permanent revolution|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/01/pers-j17.html|work=[[World Socialist Web Site]]|date=17 January 2011 |publisher=International Committee of the Fourth International|access-date=3 June 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130529173202/http://wsws.org/en/articles/2011/01/pers-j17.html|archive-date=29 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to Deutscher, Trotsky supported revolution through [[proletarian internationalism]] but opposed achieving it via [[military conquest]]. Deutscher cites Trotsky's opposition to the [[Polish–Soviet War]] (1920), his proposed armistice with the [[Allies of World War I|Entente]], and his temperance regarding staging [[British foreign policy in the Middle East|anti-British revolts]] in the Middle East.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Deutscher |first1=Isaac |title=The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky |date=5 January 2015 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78168-721-5 |pages=472–473 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGznDwAAQBAJ&q=isaac+deutscher+trotsky |language=en}}</ref>