Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
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.
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.
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.
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.