The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect,… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism. — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
