Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. Ernest Mandel criticalmarxismopen Change image and share on social
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties. Ernest Mandel partyproclaim Change image and share on social
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. Ernest Mandel instrumentpartyrevolution Change image and share on social
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 capitalistdayeconomy Change image and share on social
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 importantparticipaterevolution Change image and share on social
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable. Ernest Mandel mistakeunavoidable Change image and share on social
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 corpusfactinclude Change image and share on social
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 buildclasslessexploit share on social
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 callcommitteecondition share on social