Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
class levels consciousness
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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.
activity class conclusion consciousness draw
The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.
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.
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.
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.
change class countries majority society
But that is going to change because the working class has become a majority in society in practically all the important countries of the world.
impossible economic social
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
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.