For Marx, ‘pure’ economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

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.

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.

Only if you bring together the experience of the concrete struggles conducted by the real masses in the three sectors of the world (which are also called the three sectors of world revolution), then you have an overall, correct view of world reality.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.