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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Factions Illness Party Sign

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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.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Better Class Conscious Contrary Generally History Mass More On The Contrary Operate Organizations Organized Vanguard Working Working Class You

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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Cannot Make Really Revolution Socialist Trying Without You

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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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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

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

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

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Against Bourgeois Five Hundred Millions Revolt Society Thousand Workers

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There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Been Certain Hardly Important Rather Revolution Sense Since Single Somewhere Way Which Without Workers World Year

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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.

~Ernest Mandel

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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

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

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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Class Consciousness Expected High Level Levels Lower Relatively Than Would You

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Author

Born: April 5th, 1923

Died: July 20th, 1995

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