Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. — 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
