Ernest Mandel
Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, was a revolutionary Marxist theorist...
NationalityBelgian
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 April 1923
CountryBelgium
Ernest Mandel quotes about
economic fight higher workers
If the workers do not fight for higher wages, if they do not fight for a shorter workday, if they do not fight for, let us say it in a provocative way, day-to-day economic issues, they become demoralized slaves.
built party vanguard
A vanguard organization is something which is permanent. A vanguard party has to be constructed, has to be built through a long process.
built party vanguard
. A vanguard organization is something which is permanent. A vanguard party has to be constructed, has to be built through a long process.
goal revolution
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
class organization conscious
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.
self organization people
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.
class organization chapel
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.
years important world
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.
capitalist-economy way impossible
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.
class levels consciousness
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
order class organization
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
party illness factions
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
leader revolution groups
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
self marxism critical
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.