Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
party revolution instruments
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
hundred thousand workers
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
mistake
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
party believe self
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
self marxism critical
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
country luxury democracy
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
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.