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