Ernest Mandel

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.

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.

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

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

We have to accept the idea that Europe will be made on a two-speed basis, with a union based on solidarity and differentiation.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.