Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Ernest Mandel

Born: April 5, 1923
Died: July 20, 1995 (aged 72)
Bio: Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist.
Known for:
- Trotsky as alternative (1995)
- The meaning of the Second World War (1986)
- An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory (1970)
- Long waves of capitalist development (1980)
- From Stalinism to Eurocommunism (1978)