World revolution is the
Marxist concept of overthrowing
capitalism in all countries through the
conscious revolutionary action of the organized
working class. These revolutions would not necessarily occur simultaneously, but where and when local conditions allowed a
revolutionary party to successfully replace bourgeois ownership and rule, and install a
workers' state based on social ownership of the means of production. In most Marxist schools, such as
Trotskyism, the essentially international character of the
class struggle and the necessity of global scope are critical elements and a chief explanation of the failure of
socialism in one country.