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

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

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

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

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.