Ernest Mandel

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Factions are a sign of illness in a party. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#illness #party #sign

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. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#always #because #corpus #facts #including

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. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#between #class #contradiction #furthermore #mass

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#themselves #unavoidable

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#bourgeois #five #hundred #millions #periodically

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#like #party #revolution

Revolution is not a goal in itself. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#itself #revolution