Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
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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.Ernest Mandel
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.
Ernest Mandel
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
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
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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
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