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.

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.

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

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

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

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

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