Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
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There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.Ernest Mandel
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.
Ernest Mandel
We do not believe that Marxism is a full, final doctrine, dogma, or Weltanschauung.
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If the workers would be at the highest point of militancy and consciousness all the time, you would not need a vanguard organization.
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And if the mass of the people do not accept your choice of priorities, no power on earth, even the biggest terror of Stalin, can force them to do the one key thing that you need to build socialism have a constructive, creative, and convinced participation in the production process.
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