Ernest Mandel Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Ernest Mandel:

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Ernest Mandel

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Ernest Mandel

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

Ernest Mandel

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

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

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

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Ernest Mandel

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Ernest Mandel

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

Ernest Mandel

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.

Ernest Mandel

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Ernest Mandel

For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.

Ernest Mandel

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Ernest Mandel

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

Ernest Mandel

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

Ernest Mandel

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Ernest Mandel

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

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

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

Ernest Mandel