Ernest Mandel Quotes

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and lead the proletariat to terrible defeat.

The anarchists, on behalf of the proletariat, therefore consider it necessary to show the proletariat that it will have to win a gigantic battle before it realizes its goals.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

I was working with C. L. R. James; I believed in Marxist ideas about the labor and movement and the workers being the secret to the future. And I learned differently just by being in Detroit and being married to Jimmy Boggs.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution

It is the historical mission of the Communist International to be the gravedigger of bourgeois society.

[Jesus] organized a working class movement ... for no other purpose than to destroy class rule and set up the common people as the sole and rightful inheritors of the earth.

Marxist revolutions generally happened in countries that otherwise could not have carried out an industrial revolution.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

The class struggle is the central conflict of the world; all others are incidental.

Be committed to … smashing feudalists, conservatives, and imperialists who are "reactionaries".

Revolution against imperialism is not an action of inviting guests to have meal, writing articles, braiding, education, softness or fear of enemy. But it is a class wrath seized to topple another class

If every one of those good words - liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, human rights - has been called "bourgeois", what on earth does that leave for us?

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals.

Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

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

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.