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Revolution is not a goal in itself.
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Goal
Revolution
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Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
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Mistakes
Unavoidable
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Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
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Factions
Illness
Party
Sign
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I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
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Believe
Party
Self
Parties
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Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
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Instruments
Party
Revolution
Instrument
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You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
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Revolution
Socialist
Trying
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Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
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Critical
Marxism
Self
Open
Self-Critical
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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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Country
Democracy
Luxury
Socialist
Advanced
Countries
Industrial
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There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
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Class
Differentiation
Political
Real
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For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.
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Economic
Impossible
Social
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Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.
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Democracy
Essentials
Luxury
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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
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Class
Class Consciousness
Consciousness
Levels
Militancy
Lower
Relatively
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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
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Groups
Leader
Revolution
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Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
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Bourgeois
Hundred
Millions
Revolt
Thousand
Workers
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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.
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Omniscient
Revolution
Socialist
Ordered
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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.
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Chapel
Class
Conditions
Organization
Interests
Subordinate
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You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.
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Class
Class Consciousness
Consciousness
Militancy
Order
Organization
Vanguard
Overcome
Uneven
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The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.
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Class
Concrete
Organization
Problem
Workers
Likely
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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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Capitalist
Capitalist Economy
Function
Impossible
Labor
Selling
Way
Workers
Power Day Every Day
Strike
To Live By
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The conclusion you can draw from these characteristics is that you have an uneven development of class activity and an uneven development of class consciousness in the working class.
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Activity
Characteristics
Class Consciousness
Conclusion
Consciousness
Draw
Uneven
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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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Important
Revolution
Workers
World
Years
Somewhere
World Way Important
Hardly
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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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Contradiction
Mass
Participation
Revolutionary
Vanguard
Furthermore
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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.
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Including
Marxism
Socialism
Scientific
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For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.
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Facts
New Experiences
Past
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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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Class
Conscious
Contrary
Mass
Organization
Organized
Vanguard
Generally
On The Contrary
Operate
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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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Class Struggle
Continuity
Fifty
Program
Struggle
Revolutions
Actual
Closed
Embodies
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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.
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Federation
Oppressed
Socialist
Track
Exploited
Fulfil
Masses
Otherwise
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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.
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Committees
Conditions
Organization
People
Revolutionary
Self
Soviet
Workers
Crises
Highest Level
Popular
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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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Class
Class Consciousness
Conclusion
Consciousness
Day To Day
Day To Day Life
Historical
Movement
Real
Life Real Only
Draw
Elementary
Lenin
Union
Trade Union
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Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.
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Real
Struggle
Views
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Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.
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Foundation
Rocks
Thinking
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