Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
trying revolution socialist
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
leader revolution groups
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
party illness factions
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
order class organization
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
real class political
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
class levels consciousness
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
luxury democracy essentials
Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
capitalist-economy way impossible
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.
years important world
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.
class organization chapel
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.
real class historical
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.
self organization people
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.
class organization conscious
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.
real struggle views
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.