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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

Topics: About Brought Class Consciousness Dangerous Development Need Order Organization Overcome Potential Vanguard You

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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Believe Parties

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

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Class Differentiation Going Political Process Real Social Time Working Working Class

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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.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Call Committees Conditions Crises Highest Highest Level Level Only Organization People Popular Revolutionary Say Soviet Them Type Want Which Workers You

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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

Topics: Absolutely Between Class Contradiction Furthermore Mass Organizations Participation Revolutionary Separate Vanguard Working Working Class

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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.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Any Chapel Class Conditions Interests Organization Separate Subordinate Which Whole

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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

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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

Topics: About Always Because Facts Including Incorporated Marxism New Open Past Scientific Socialism Us Which

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

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Always Critical Marxism Open Self-Critical

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Revolution is not a goal in itself.

~Ernest Mandel

Topics: Goal Itself Revolution

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Author

Born: April 5th, 1923

Died: July 20th, 1995

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