You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
Ernest Mandel
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
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You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.
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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.
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
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.
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