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Ernest Mandel, born on April 5, 1923 in Germany and died on July 20, 1995 in France, was a prominent Marxist theorist, economist, and social activist in the 20th century.

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“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.”

Class Mass Conscious Organization Contrary Organized Working Class Vanguard

Author:Ernest Mandel

“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.”

People Want Self Levels Conditions Type Highest Organization Crisis Workers What You Want Revolutionary Soviet Committees Council

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“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.”

Problem Class Organization Workers Come Up Concrete Working Class

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

“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.”

Whole Interest Class Conditions Organization Subordinates Sects Chapel

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

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

Needs Order Consciousness Class Dangerous Development Organization Overcoming Vanguard Militancy Class Consciousness

Book:Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

Source: Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays

About the Author

Born: April 5, 1923
Died: July 20, 1995
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Quotes: 26

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Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essaysRelated source material

Marxist Economic Theory: Vol II,Related source material

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