Michel Pablo

Michel Pablo

Fri, 01/01/16

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Self-management in the struggle for socialism

The task of the vanguard is to ensure that the new ‘power’ is not centralised in the hands of an ‘elite’ but that it is diffused as widely as possible among the mass of working people.

Since the Communist Manifesto was written, the struggle for world socialism has taken on extremely diverse forms, the content of the struggle varying from case to case. The type of transitional society from capitalism to socialism that Marx (in the Critique of the Gotha Programme) or Lenin (in The State and Revolution) envisaged, has not yet been reached anywhere. read more »

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