Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
including marxism open scientific
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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.
factory fusion layer leaders life minority national notion political struggles vanguard workers youth
The real notion is that of the fusion in real life between this vanguard layer of the working class, the real leaders of real struggles of workers at factory and neighborhood levels, of woman's struggles, of youth struggles, of national minority struggles, and the political vanguard organization.
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.
actual believe class closed continuity definitely embodies experience fifty hundred last marxist
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.
build exploited fulfil historical oppressed otherwise role track
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.
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.
mass vanguard
Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.
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.
century history social
After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.
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.
impossible economic social
For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.