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

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

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

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.

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

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

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.