Ernest Mandel

“The history of the bourgeoisie can be written as the history of the successive liquidations of the bourgeoisie.”

“Late capitalism is a system of organized irresponsibility.”

“The individual appropriation of surplus value is the basis of the capitalist mode of production.”

“The revolutionary class="highlight">party is not the class="highlight">party of the working class. It is the class="highlight">party of the vanguard of the working class.”

“The struggle for socialism is the struggle for the emancipation of the working class, and therefore of all humanity.”

“It is not true that the legislator has an unlimited power over our persons and our property.”

“Self-management is the only way to overcome the alienation of labor.”

“There is no 'third way' between capitalism and socialism.”

“The crisis of capitalism is a permanent crisis.”

“The right to vote is a conquest of the working class. It has to be used as a weapon in the class struggle.”

“Fascism is the mobilization of the petty bourgeoisie by big capital for the purpose of civil war against the proletariat.”

“The fundamental contradiction of the capitalist mode of production is the contradiction between the social character of production and the private character of appropriation.”