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>Trotsky's unique theoretical innovation leading up to 1917 was to advocate that the RSDLP should embrace minority rule, and immediately begin the transition to socialism on behalf of the working class. He claimed that the peasantry and petty bourgeoisie, by virtue of their class position, were incapable of forming a cohesive political movement of their own, and were therefore forced to choose between the parties of the capitalists and the working class. The revolutionary transitional government would be made permanent, and the democratic republic would have to wait until the socialist revolution was victorious in Europe. To quote Trotsky in The Permanent Revolution:
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A part of the screenshot is kinda fucked, so here's the text for it:
>Trotsky's unique theoretical innovation leading up to 1917 was to advocate that the RSDLP should embrace minority rule, and immediately begin the transition to socialism on behalf of the working class. He claimed that the peasantry and petty bourgeoisie, by virtue of their class position, were incapable of forming a cohesive political movement of their own, and were therefore forced to choose between the parties of the capitalists and the working class. The revolutionary transitional government would be made permanent, and the democratic republic would have to wait until the socialist revolution was victorious in Europe. To quote Trotsky in The Permanent Revolution: