Ernest Mandel Quotes

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

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



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



I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

Ernest Mandel



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

Ernest Mandel



Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

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



Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

Ernest Mandel