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25 quotes by Ernest Mandel

Ernest Ezra Mandel (Dutch: [manˈdɛl]; also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter; 5 April 1923, Frankfurt – 20 July 1995, Brussels), was a revolutionary Marxist theorist.
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You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class... →

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

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

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

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Revolution is not a goal in itself.

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

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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

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Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

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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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