Citations:permanent revolutionary

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English citations of permanent revolutionary

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  • 1936, Harold Joseph Laski, Sir Charles Kingsley Webster, Politica[1], volume 2, numbers 5–10, London School of Economics and Political Science, page 484:
    Permanent revolutionaries ; they have got conspiracy and rebellion in their blood.
  • 1940, Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs[2], number 34, Oxford University Press, page 11:
    In achieving supreme power, it was in the first place the internationalists, the ‘permanent revolutionaries’ — Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev — that Stalin managed to oust.
  • 2003, Svetlana Boym, chapter 19, in Ninochka: A Novel, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 159:
    I got interested in Marxism, in more of a Trotskyist branch, I must confess. I became a taxi driver and a permanent revolutionary.
  • 2007, Brian Preston, Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture, Grove/Atlantic, Inc., →ISBN, page 109:
    Gary and Paris have been inspired of late by reading Trotsky’s autobiography. “He was a permanent revolutionary,” Paris tells me.