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"Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical."
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"Sometimes we are so caught up in the disappointment of plans gone astray that we fail to recognize the potentially new options that might now exist."

"If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility."

"In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers."

"If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody."

"When you begin conversations with confidence and listen attentively, you will become more flexible and adaptable in most any situation."

"A person living in everyone else's style reacts only to stimulus."

"Understanding is not absolutely final.What's now right could be wrong later."

"Life is all about flexibility."

"If people are not dancing to your tune, change the song."

"Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes."
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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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."
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