Trotskyism (20TH CENTURY)
Views originally developed by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (1879-1940). Revolution, once begun, must continue until workers’ power is established worldwide, permanent revolution is thus preferred to socialism in one country. Source: David Miller et al., eds, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Poltical Thought (Oxford, 1987) Definition The leaders of the Trotskyist Left Opposition in Moscow, 1927 (sitting: Leonid Serebryakov, Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky, Mikhail Boguslavsky and Yevgeni Preobrazhensky;