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

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

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.

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

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.