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"Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical."
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"Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes."

"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."

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

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

"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."

"Life is all about flexibility."

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

"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."
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"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 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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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