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

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

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

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.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

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