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Ernest Mandel

Belgian Author

Born: Apr 5, 1923

Died: Jul 20, 1995

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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. Ernest Mandel

You Revolution Make Without Trying Cannot Really Socialist

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. Ernest Mandel

Life You Class Draw Would Class Consciousness Only Day-To-Day Day-To-Day Life Call Trade Conclusion Trade Union Real Historical Movement Lenin Working Working-Class Union Large Elementary Consciousness

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

Society Hundred Thousand Bourgeois Five Revolt Against Workers Millions

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible. Ernest Mandel

Day Every Day Impossible Power Live Every Strike Way Economy Makes Selling Labor Cannot To Live By Workers Capitalist Function

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. Ernest Mandel

You Class Dangerous Overcome Organization Vanguard Class Consciousness Brought About Potential Development Uneven Order Militancy Consciousness Need

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties. Ernest Mandel

Believe Parties

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. Ernest Mandel

Time Class Political Real Going Process Social Working Working-Class Differentiation

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. Ernest Mandel

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. Ernest Mandel

Party Revolution Like Instrument

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries. Ernest Mandel

Democracy Luxury Advanced Countries Most Industrial Limited Socialist Need

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. Ernest Mandel

World Build Society Otherwise Federation Masses Track Oppressed Off Historical Role Get Want Which Exploited Fulfil Help Socialist

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