Ernest Mandel

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

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. ”

Revolution is not a goal in itself. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. ”

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. ”

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