permanent revolution
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Noun[edit]
permanent revolution (countable and uncountable, plural permanent revolutions)
- (Marxism) The status of a revolutionary class where it continues to push for and achieve its interests despite the political dominance of those with opposing interests.
- (communism) The theory that socialism can be obtained without the country first experiencing a period of capitalism. The revolution must furthermore become an agent for other anticapitalist revolutions around the globe, in part to secure the revolution abroad.
- Antonym: stagism