Stalin: There can be no doubt at all. "Permanent revolution" is not a mere underestimation of the revolutionary potentialities of the peasant movement. "Permanent revolution" is an underestimation of the peasant movement which leads to the repudiation of Lenin's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Trotsky's "permanent revolution" is a variety of Menshevism. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9296