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

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

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"Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation."

Society

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

Leadership

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

Society

"Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical."

Flexibility

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

Development

"I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties."

Self

"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."

Revolution

"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."

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"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."

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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."

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