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Top 25 Ernest Mandel Quotes (2025 Update)

Ernest Mandel Quote: “I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.”

1. “I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

— Ernest Mandel

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

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

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.”

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

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.”

5. “For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Factions are a sign of illness in a party.”

6. “Factions are a sign of illness in a party.”

— Ernest Mandel

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

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

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.”

8. “Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Revolution is not a goal in itself.”

9. “Revolution is not a goal in itself.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “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.”

11. “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

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.”

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

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.”

13. “Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.”

15. “Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “For Marx, ‘pure’ economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.”

16. “For Marx, ‘pure’ economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.”

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

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.”

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

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.”

19. “Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.”

20. “And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.”

22. “You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “Capitalism subordinates men to machines instead of using machines to liberate men from the burden of mechanical and repetitive work.”

24. “Capitalism subordinates men to machines instead of using machines to liberate men from the burden of mechanical and repetitive work.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.”

25. “No government could last more than a month without having to knock on the door of the banks in order to pay its current expenses. If the banks were to refuse, the government would go bankrupt.”

— Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel Quote: “The concrete is always a combination of in- numerable theoretical ‘abstractions’.”

26. “The concrete is always a combination of in- numerable theoretical ‘abstractions’.”

— Ernest Mandel

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