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

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.

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

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

Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.

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