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In Marx’s two-stage revolutionary theory, though two periods of violence were called for, the need for unceasing radicalism and agitation was emphatically stressed. Trotsky and Parvus, building on this continuous aspect of Marxism, and impatient of the delays required in the process of building the proletariat of Russia into a majority, worked out in 1905 a theory of “permanent revolution” which would telescope Marx’s two stages.
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Chen, Y.P. (1966). Socialist Revolution. In: Chinese Political Thought. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0493-5_5
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