Tradition
Revolutionary socialism
Overview
political ideology
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The unions become the organizers of labor discipline. They demand from the workers intensive labor under the most difficult conditions, to the extent that the Labor State is not yet able to alter those conditions. The unions become the apparatus of revolutionary repression against undisciplined, anarchical, parasitic elements in the working class. From the old policy of trade unionism, which at a certain stage is…
Leon Trotsky, Dictatorship vs. Democracy
Close in meaning to Revolutionary socialism; the term itself is not named.
To accomplish this act of universal emancipation is the historical mission of the modern proletariat. To thoroughly comprehend the historical conditions and thus the very nature of this act, to impart to the now oppressed proletarian class a full knowledge of the conditions and of the meaning of the momentous act it is called upon to accomplish, this is the task of the theoretical expression of the proletarian…
Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific
States what Revolutionary socialism is; the author is tied to Revolutionary socialism in the knowledge graph.
But everything changed suddenly when they found themselves in responsible "posts." To adhere to the policy of Revolutionary Socialism meant, under those circumstances, to break with the bourgeoisie, their own and that of the Allies. And we have already said that the political helplessness of the intellectual and semi-intellectual middle class sought shelter for itself in a union with bourgeois liberalism.
Leon Trotsky, From October to Brest-Litovsk
Names Revolutionary socialism.
Philosophers who discussed Revolutionary socialism
Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- Anarchism
- Marxists Internet Archive
- Karl Marx
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Leon Trotsky
- Leninism
- Marxism
- Marxism–Leninism
- October Revolution
- Political philosophy
- Russian Revolution
- Syndicalism
- Soviet Union
- Socialism
- State (polity)
- Stalinism
- The Communist Manifesto
- Eduard Bernstein
- Democratic socialism
- Polemic
- Working class
- Social revolution
- Capitalist mode of production
Place in the tradition
Part of Communism.