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.
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.
For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new experiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism.