Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
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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.Ernest Mandel
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.
Ernest Mandel
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
Ernest Mandel
In a healthy party you have no factions a healthy party from the point of view of both the political line and the internal party regime.
Ernest Mandel
If the workers do not fight for higher wages, if they do not fight for a shorter workday, if they do not fight for, let us say it in a provocative way, day-to-day economic issues, they become demoralized slaves.
Ernest Mandel
The real notion is that of the fusion in real life between this vanguard layer of the working class, the real leaders of real struggles of workers at factory and neighborhood levels, of woman's struggles, of youth struggles, of national minority struggles, and the political vanguard organization.
Ernest Mandel
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