Trotsky's ultimate goal was to achieve an international revolution, reasoning with evidence from traditional Marxism and its effectiveness within fully developed capitalist conditions, that revolution in peasant-based such as Russia would prepare the foundation for the establishment and expansion of his permanent revolution. Trotsky argued that this internal revolution within Russia would spread quickly to those capitalist countries, encouraging a worldwide socialist revolution. In this way, revolution is made permanent, spreading through feudal, capitalist and socialist stages, finally achieving global communism