Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
class organization problem
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.
past new-experiences facts
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.
thinking rocks causes
Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.
goal revolution
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
basic coming conceptual conclude nearly necessity vanguard
Coming out of all these basic conceptual distinctions we can conclude the necessity of a vanguard formation nearly immediately.
anywhere clear communist exists light socialist society
In the light of these principles, it is clear that no socialist or communist society exists anywhere in the world today.
economic fight higher workers
If the workers do not fight for higher wages, if they do not fight for a shorter workday, if they do not fight for, let us say it in a provocative way, day-to-day economic issues, they become demoralized slaves.
both healthy internal line party point political view
In a healthy party you have no factions; a healthy party from the point of view of both the political line and the internal party regime.
built party vanguard
A vanguard organization is something which is permanent. A vanguard party has to be constructed, has to be built through a long process.
built party vanguard
. A vanguard organization is something which is permanent. A vanguard party has to be constructed, has to be built through a long process.
cannot correct fragmented reality total view
They cannot have an overall, total correct view of reality because they see only a fragmented part of that reality.
century history social
After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.