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• Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the…
• You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and…
• Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
• Revolution is not a goal in itself.
• You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
• Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
• Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
• I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
• Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
• Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
• Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

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