...changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution. . . . The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class...

...for traditional and either specific or parochial values and goals. As Trotsky perceptively put it, "the masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime" (Trotsky, 1932:x). And it is usually...

...changes in the psychology of classes which have already formed themselves before the revolution . . . The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime. Only the guiding layers of a class...

...during a political struggle (Lichbach forthcoming, chap. 7). As Trotsky ([1932] 1974, xviii) argues, "The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old régime." Examples of successful conflicts...

...fought for traditional and ether specific or parochial values and goals. As Trotsky perceptively put it, "the masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction but with a sharp feeling that they cannot endure the old regime" (Trotsky, 1932:x). And it is usually...

...driven not by a precise vision of a future world, but by the unbearable conditions of an existing one. 'The masses go into a revolution not with a prepared plan of social reconstruction, but with a sharp feeling that they can no longer endure the old society', notes Leon Trotsky in The...