Leon Trotsky Fourth International
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“Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.”
Ernest Mandel
“If the workers do not fight for higher wages, if they do not fight for a shorter workday, if they do not fight for, let us say it in a provocative way, day-to-day economic issues, they become demoralized slaves.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.”
“After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.”
“worthy of their human nature.”
“Revolution is not a goal in itself.”
“You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution.”