Leon Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution

 

Thursday * Feb. 17 * 7:30PM

UMass Campus Center #911

After the Russian Revolution Trotsky developed a theory known as "permanent revolution" to explain how underdeveloped countries could advance beyond capitalism, to a socialist society. Trotsky rejected the Stalinist analysis which said that all societies must go through set stages (Feudalism-Capitalism-Socialism) before a socialist society could be founded. This theory has given Marxism important insights on the revolutionary working class struggles in the Global South and especially in the ongoing revolutionary process in Egypt. Join the International Socialist Organization for a discussion on Trotsky's Theory of Permanent Revolution.

You will get the most out of this meeting if you do the recommended reading beforehand:

Permanent Revolution
Paul D'Amato
http://socialistworker.org/2009/07/15/permanent-revolution

Results and Prospects
David Whitehouse
http://www.isreview.org/issues/39/results_prospects.shtml

In addition this is a short and sweet article from an Egyptian comrade on the relevance of permanent revolution:
http://www.arabawy.org/2011/02/12/permanent-revolution/

Additional Reading:

Leon Trotsky
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/pr10.htm

Debate in the ISR
http://www.isreview.org/issues/48/permrev-damato.shtml
http://www.isreview.org/issues/48/permrev-whitehouse.shtm