And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.
Factions are a sign of illness in a party.
I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
Revolution is not a goal in itself.
Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.