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
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. — 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
