There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

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

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

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.