Two of them, Ludwig and Olga, became professional revolutionaries.

Instead he believed that revolution should be carried out by a small group of professional, dedicated revolutionaries, who would establish a temporary dictatorship by force.

He proposed a cadre of professional revolutionaries that disciplined itself under the model of Democratic Centralism.

The dispute was about whether the party should have a loose membership or whether it should be a party of professional revolutionaries.

Furthermore a great number of them, namely their most intelligent members, would belong to the vanguard's inner circle as professional revolutionaries.

Lenin made Marxism a creed for a fighting organization of professional revolutionaries.

Utterly ruthless in the methods he used, he created a highly-centralized, tightly-knit organization of professional revolutionaries obedient to his will.

The heart of Lenin's strategy lay in the creation of a party of professional revolutionaries.

(1902), which proposed a smaller party organisation of professional revolutionaries, with Iskra in a primary ideologic role.

Lenin's answer was the creation of a party of full-time professional revolutionaries who would constitute a kind of political elite.