Top 25 Quotes by Ernest Mandel

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

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.

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

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

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

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

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.