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Ernest Mandel

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Also known as Ernest Ezra Mandel

Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher (1923–1995)

Person · Open Library

Born
5 April 1923
Died
20 July 1995
Works
143

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1925-11-23
Active to
2020-06-29

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Total plays
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Quotes

  • Yes, he does indeed and again this is very positive. Our movement has defended this thesis for 55 years and was therefore labelled as . Today people, both in the Soviet Union and in a large part of the international communist movement, understand better where the real counterrevolutionaries were.
  • The reformer Yeltsin represents the tendency which wants to reduce the gigantic state apparatus. Consequently he follows in Trotsky's footsteps.
  • For Marx, ‘pure’ economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific , is impossible.
  • By stating that the analysis of the laws of motion governing the capitalist mode of production necessarily includes at least some essential elements of an analysis of economic phenomena valid for the whole historical epoch encompassing economic organizations in which commodity production exists, one extends the validity of parts of Marx’s Capital not only into the past but also into the future.
  • Precisely because Marx was convinced that the cause of the proletariat was of decisive importance for the whole future of mankind, he wanted to create for that cause not a flimsy platform of rhetorical invective or wishful thinking, but the rock-like foundation of scientific truth.

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