Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. Ernest Mandel More Quotes by Ernest Mandel More Quotes From Ernest Mandel Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. Ernest Mandel instruments revolution party There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. Ernest Mandel political real class You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. Ernest Mandel consciousness levels class For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible. Ernest Mandel economic social impossible The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class. Ernest Mandel you activity development class 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 working participation mass class 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 experience struggle believe book 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 new socialism facts past 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 help society want world
