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You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
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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 world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.
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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
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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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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.
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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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For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
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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)
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