You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.
More Quotes from Ernest Mandel:
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
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
Ernest Mandel
We do not believe that Marxism is a full, final doctrine, dogma, or Weltanschauung.
Ernest Mandel
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.
Ernest Mandel
If the workers would be at the highest point of militancy and consciousness all the time, you would not need a vanguard organization.
Ernest Mandel
But that is going to change because the working class has become a majority in society in practically all the important countries of the world.
Ernest Mandel
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