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.
More Quotes by Ernest Mandel
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
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.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.