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Quote by Ernest Mandel

“Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.”

Quote by Ernest Mandel

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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. more

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“There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.”

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“You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.”

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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.”

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“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.”

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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

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“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.”

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“The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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