Ernest Mandel Quotes
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
Mandel, Ernest. The Vanguard Party. Socialist Action, 1983.
Comintern was upset by the American Socialist Party because the party had rejected the 21 Conditions for Affiliation and withdrew their intent to join the Third International. To Comintern, the Socialist Party was a party of “bourgeois socialism.”
This first meeting was held in a girls’ school. One of the delegates was a young library assistant and school teacher, Mau Tse Tung.
And as the leader of the exploited, after his revolution he became a dictator himself, albeit a very popular one amongst most Cubans.
This to some is a surprising statement for a Marxist, but Marxists have a wide range of political opinions just like Republicans, Christians, and Factor Owners do.
For this and other speeches Debs had unconstitutionally been arrested and jailed for opposing American entry into World War I and the Draft. He was later pardoned by President Warren G. Harding.
During his first term as Mayor, it was suggested that Milwaukee invite King Albert of Belgium to the city. His Honor exploded:
This was a great victory for the Victor Berger wing of the party. They purged the violence advocates and communists from the party. Despite this, a few right wingers call any socialist a communist and a revolutionary.
Ernest Ezra Mandel (Dutch: [manˈdɛl]; also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter;, was a Belgian Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium.
