Professional revolutionaries

Professional revolutionary referred to in the intra -Marxist debate a - not necessarily highly skilled in Marxist theory - supporters of a communist movement, who devotes his life to the preparation of the proletarian revolution in a country or around the world. They will be required to subordinate this objective all his other goals and commitments to change its location of use to order the party etc.

Leninist application of the term

The term is mainly based on Lenin's theory of revolution, as he in his manifesto "What to do in 1902? Has " developed Burning questions of our movement. Lenin developed takes the approach that even in countries where the proletarian revolution not yet matured ' is (for example, because these countries had not even a "bourgeois [ capitalist ] revolution" made ​​), this revolution of the proletariat by a cadre party could be successfully carried out by professional revolutionaries. In the eye he had while the Russian Empire. ( See also Leninism. )

In 1930, Bert Brecht in his play " The measure " a failing in his duty professional revolutionary hero.

Other uses of the term

From non-Marxist side, the term is used differently:

• Constative, in political science to refer to revolutionaries who then made ​​other ( peasant, bourgeois, national) as the revolutions of the proletariat is their life or make
• Often pejoratively, to earn in the political polemic, taking mostly the narrow-mindedness and the apparent inability of a " professional revolutionary " is accented with any other activity for a living.

Source

• Marxists.org - Chapter: Who are the professional revolutionists?

• Professional, management