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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.

Ernest Mandel

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.

Ernest Mandel

Class

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.

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

Ernest Mandel

Time

Class

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.

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.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Ernest Mandel

Class

Consciousness

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Ernest Mandel

Revolution

Trying

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

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Ernest Mandel

Revolution

Party