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.
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Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class.Ernest Mandel
In the light of these principles, it is clear that no socialist or communist society exists anywhere in the world today.
Ernest Mandel
The most elementary self-organizations are trade unions.
Ernest Mandel
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
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
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation.
Ernest Mandel
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