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

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

- Ernest Mandel

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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.

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

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

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.

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

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

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.

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.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

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