"Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an……" — Ernest Mandel
"Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism."
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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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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
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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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