"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."

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

Ernest Mandel

#Past Quotes #Facts Quotes #Socialism Quotes

“The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.”
“Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!”
“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.”
“In my country we go to prison first and then become President.”
“When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.”
“In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?”

Source : "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.
“If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.”

Source : 1986 Coasting, ch.6.
“I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.”

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