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Ernest Mandel quotes about work

Belgian Author April 5, 1923 – July 20, 1995

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

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