The Revolutionary Potential of the Working Class

by Ernest Mandel, George Novack

Paperback

Published September 1, 1974

About the author

Ernest Ezra Mandel was a German born Belgian-Jewish Marxian economist and a Trotskyist activist and theorist. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium and he became a member of the Fourth International during his youth in Antwerp. Mandel is considered to be populariser of marxism.

Reviews

[Marc Lichtman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit dated and now out of print, but I think Mandel's idea about "the proletarianization of intellectual labor" is actually more relevant than when he wrote it.