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

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

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

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.

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

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.

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