#evolution

We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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

— Ernest Mandel

#cannot #group #leader #leaders #omniscient

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#between #class #contradiction #furthermore #mass

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#make #really #revolution #socialist #trying

The next evolutionary step is into the screen. ↗

— Marc Maron

#into #next #screen #step

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#change #declaration #few #hanging #independence

The Church's note must be a supernatural note which distinguishes incarnation from immanence, redemption from evolution, the Kingdom of God from mere spiritual process. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#distinguishes #evolution #god #incarnation #kingdom

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#conquest #consequence #established #foreign #institutions

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#clarke #doomed #evolution #humans #kubrick

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#confirmed #cruel #destructive #forces #grandiose