This position validated and endorsed, in all essentials, Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution ... an extensive study of the writings of Marx and Engels on the subject of the state.

[2] 9. In a further passage, on which Leon Trotsky would later base himself in the elaboration of the Theory of Permanent Revolution, Marx and Engels explained: “While the democratic petty ...

‘patiently copying out and making legible her Marx’s blistering indictment of the bourgeoisie, and his belief that revolution was right, inevitable, and imminent.’ As a condition for his ...