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The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International

And Why They Remain Valid Today
Ernest Mandel Print
Mandel, E., Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays, ed. and with an introd. by Steve Bloom, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994, pp. 143-178
  1. Conjuncture and structure
  2. The basic contradictions of our epoch
  3. There is no perspective for capitalism
  4. Only the working class is capable of overthrowing capitalism and establishing a socialist world
  5. Without anti-capitalist theory and practice no anti-capitalist victory is possible
  6. The bureaucracy cannot introduce institutionalised socialist democracy
  7. Extent and limits of the new revolutionary gains
  8. Extent and limits of the recomposition of the workers’ movement
  9. The challenge of internationalisation
  10. Without international theory, practice and organisation there will be no building of the World Socialist Federation
 

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