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> [Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/furthermore-there-is-absolutely-no-contradiction-between-the-separate/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

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## More by Ernest Mandel

> [For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/for-marx-pure-economic-theory-that-is-economic-theory-which-abstracts/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/the-only-conclusion-you-can-draw-from-the-real-historical-movement-is/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/socialist-democracy-is-not-a-luxury-and-its-need-is-not-limited-to/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/and-you-cannot-have-a-socialist-revolution-commandeered-from-the-top/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/periodically-the-workers-do-revolt-against-bourgeois-society-not-by-a/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/furthermore-there-is-absolutely-no-contradiction-between-the-separate/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/we-do-not-believe-that-the-marxist-program-which-embodies-the/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/you-can-have-relatively-high-levels-of-class-consciousness-with-a/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/socialist-democracy-is-not-a-luxury-but-an-absolute-essential/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Revolution is not a goal in itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/revolution-is-not-a-goal-in-itself/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/otherwise-we-get-off-the-track-and-we-do-not-fulfil-the-historical/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/for-us-marxism-is-always-open-because-there-are-always-new-xperiences/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [Factions are a sign of illness in a party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/factions-are-a-sign-of-illness-in-a-party/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/for-us-marxism-is-always-open-because-there-are-always-new/)

[Ernest Mandel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernest-mandel/)

> [There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernest-mandel/there-has-been-hardly-a-single-year-since-1917-and-in-a-certain-sense/)

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