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The concept of
professional revolutionaries, alternatively called
cadre, is in origin a
Leninist concept used to describe a body of devoted
communists who spend the great majority of their time organizing their party toward
proletarian revolution. This core is usually very small, and as a consequence is sometimes cited for being the cause of the return to
capitalism of the so-called '
Communist states'. Most
Marxists argue that a cadre core is necessary in one form or another.
Trotskyists don't believe that professional revolutionaries or
vanguardism are to blame from the eventual
totalitarian nature of the
Soviet Union, its
satellite states, and the
People's Republic of China. Instead they cite
Stalinism as the cause, coupled with an unprepared proletariat. In Lenin's original work the purpose of the cadre is to educate the masses and essentially bring the entire population to the level of "professional revolutionaries".
Basing themselves on
What is to be Done?, the pamphlet that bore the idea, Trotskyists and other communists today advocate for a "mass party" with a membership of millions of
working class people, thereby maximizing, in their view, direct participation in the revolution and the subsequent revolutionary government.
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