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

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

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

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

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.