"Factions are a sign of illness in a…" — Ernest Mandel
"Factions are a sign of illness in a party."
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Ernest Mandel
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27 Quotes by Ernest Mandel
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Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors…
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You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class…
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of…
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Revolution is not a goal in itself.
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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
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Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
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Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the…
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Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
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There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
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More Factions Quotes
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
— John Adams
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Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.
— Bertolt Brecht
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In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans,…
— Noam Chomsky
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Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection…
— Alexander Hamilton
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will…
— Edmund Burke
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It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is,…
— Samuel Johnson
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It is imperative to contest all factions for complete victory, so the army is not garrisoned and the profit can…
— Sun Tzu
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In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may…
— James Madison
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Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad…
— James Madison
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The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into…
— James Madison
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