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Ernest Mandel [1923-1995] Belgian

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Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist.

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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 consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.		101
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.		102
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.		103
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.		104
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.		105
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.		106
Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.		107
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.		108
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.		109
There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.		110
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.		111
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.		112
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.		113
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.		114
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.		115
There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.		116
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.		117
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.		118
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.		119
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class.		120
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.		121
Revolution is not a goal in itself.		122
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.		123
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.		124
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.		125

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