Comment on the “Revolution in Permanence”. [150 words]
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 Stagist orthodoxy in Marxism → question: must revolution halt at bourgeois-democratic stage?
Route 2 Marx–Engels coined the phrase → Trotsky gave it systematic theory
Stagism rejected → uneven and combined development → bourgeois-democratic revolution passes into socialist revolution in unbroken chain → world-system logic → Russian Revolution must spread → human emancipation, not just state seizure
Soviet failure revealed limits → Mao echoed the idea but outcomes remained bounded by national conditions
Route 1 Revolution in Permanence as theoretical corrective to mechanical Marxism
Route 2 Its core insight — revolution must be continuous and global — remains the most unresolved challenge in socialist politics
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
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The same flow snapshot, built for every head of the syllabus, with the answer written in class.
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