Apparently, Ernest Mandel once wanted the IMG’s paper (Red Mole?) to include a centre-spread article by him, entitled “Students: the new revolutionary vanguard”. Fortunately, it didn’t get printed. Sadly, Ernest had given-up on the working class proper; preferring, instead, its labour aristocracy, which includes many “petty-bourgeois intellectuals”, to use a term which Trotsky warned-about.
Apparently, Ernest Mandel once wanted the IMG’s paper (Red Mole?) to include a centre-spread article by him, entitled “Students: the new revolutionary vanguard”. Fortunately, it didn’t get printed. Sadly, Ernest had given-up on the working class proper; preferring, instead, its labour aristocracy, which includes many “petty-bourgeois intellectuals”, to use a term which Trotsky warned-about.