"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."

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Source : Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

Ernest Mandel

#Real Quotes #Class Quotes #Historical Quotes

“It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
“If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career”
“Heâ€™s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. Itâ€™s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, iâ€™d take Thierry Henry”
“Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.”

Source : "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.
“On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view”
“If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!”
“The bigger the risks, the better off you are. Otherwise you're just boring.”
“Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.”

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