The real notion is that of the fusion in real life between this vanguard layer of the working class, the real leaders of real struggles of workers at factory and neighborhood levels, of woman's struggles, of youth struggles, of national minority struggles, and the political vanguard organization. |
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. |
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. |
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time. |
They cannot have an overall, total correct view of reality because they see only a fragmented part of that reality. |
We do not believe that Marxism is a full, final doctrine, dogma, or Weltanschauung. |
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. |
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. |
worthy of their human nature. |
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. |
You cannot have a spontaneous socialist revolution. |
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. |
You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. |