Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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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.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.
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Revolution is not a goal in itself.
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. A vanguard organization is something which is permanent. A vanguard party has to be constructed, has to be built through a long process.
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The radical and international definition of a communist society given by Marx and Engels inevitably leads to the perspective of a transition (transition period) between capitalism and communism.
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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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