Ernest Mandel Quotes on work

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... view

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

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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... view

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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... view

By: Ernest Mandel

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The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class... view

By: Ernest Mandel

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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... view

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

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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... view

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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... view

By: Ernest Mandel

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