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 Quotes
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
Similar Quotes
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
- Benazir BhuttoIn a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
- Chris PattenTo state as clearly as may be what means lie ready to develop a property-owning democracy,...
- Noel SkeltonThe cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment m...
- William Ellery ChanningCorruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
- Peter UstinovComments on: "Ernest Mandel Quotes: Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to..."
| Birth: | 5th April, 1923 |
| Death: | 20th July, 1995 |
| Nationality: | Belgian |
| Profession: | Author, Economist, Professor, Theorist |
About
Ernest Ezra Mandel was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He was a German-born Belgian revolutionary Marxist theorist, author, economist, and professor. He is the author of such works as Late Capitalism, An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory, The Meaning of the Second World War, Trotsky as Alternative, and Power and Money. He was a professor at the Free University of Brussels. He was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second World War as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium and during his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp.
Share with your friends