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On Ernest Mandel's Contributions

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-01-15T13:52:32Z

“Kellner offers the following critical appreciation: “One hopes that many more people will be inspired by Mandel's verve and let themselves be motivated to live his kind of life, yet without succumbing to ungrounded political confidence or to some of his more questionable ideas.””

- Reviews section / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Reviews

The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International

Ernest Mandel — 2025-09-03T11:17:00Z

The Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We are publishing for the first on International Viewpoint this article by Ernest Mandel published for the fiftieth anniversary, in 1988.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Historical events and figures

Ernest Mandel: partybuilder and pedagogue

Penelope Duggan — 2025-07-22T18:32:07Z

“However, Ernest was also a practical revolutionary convinced of the need to build revolutionary organizations, both the section in Belgium and the Fourth International worldwide.”

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Obituary, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel

Thirty years since the death of Ernest Mandel

Eduardo Lucita — 2025-07-22T17:41:15Z

Sunday, 20 July 1995, marks three decades since the death of Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) "the most creative economist of our time," in the words of the Pakistani socialist Tariq Ali. Thus ended a whole life informed by the passion of revolutionary militancy and an intense activity in the construction of Marxist organizations and of the international itself.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Obituary, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel

The strategy of transitional demands

Ernest Mandel — 2024-12-31T17:00:35Z

We have particularly highlighted this aspect of the international dimension that every socialist strategy needs because it emerges unequivocally from the experiences and struggles of the European proletariat.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel

A revolutionary and internationalist activist, both in thought and in action

Éric Toussaint — 2023-08-10T14:17:38Z

Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of activists, students, researchers and leaders of trade union, social and political organizations, well beyond the Fourth International, which Mandel helped to lead. Mandel was a builder of organizations. (…)

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel's ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory'

Ian Parker — 2021-10-08T07:24:10Z

“Mandel's main fault, several speakers at the commemorative meeting claimed, was over-optimism. But he left us with writing on the history and economic grounding of capitalism, analyses of bureaucracy and alienation, and an account of the underlying structural preconditions for the world we live in today.”

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Features

1990: The assassination of Trotsky

Ernest Mandel — 2020-08-28T17:47:36Z

This article was first published under the pseudonym of Louis Couturier in La Gauche, the journal of the Belgian section of the Fourth International, on 19 September 1990.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Historical events and figures

Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown

George Kerevan — 2020-08-08T06:44:09Z

Using insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Marxism, Scotland, Economy, Ernest Mandel

Emancipation and science: Ernest Mandel 25 years later

Alex de Jong — 2020-07-20T07:45:41Z

This year marks 25 years since Ernest Mandel died. Mandel was one of the most significant Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1982, he was central to founding our Institute. A prolific scholar and activist until the end of his life, Mandel wrote dozens of books and hundreds of articles.

- IV546 - July 2020 / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel