Ernest Mandel
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Oct 6, 2026
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Carol DiviakHOST
The same perspective recalled that the PT was founded with the decisive participation of the Pablo White revisionists, the followers of Pierre Lambert's French OCI, the Argentine tendency of Noel Moreno and Ernst Mandel's United Secretariat.
Carol DiviakHOST
Quote, crucial to the formation of this party were the political activities of groups that had broken with the Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International, and rejected the revolutionary role of the working class.
Carol DiviakHOST
Some of them had previously promoted Castroism and petty-bourgeois guerrillaism as a substitute for the development of a mass revolutionary socialist workers' movement, with disastrous consequences throughout Latin America.
Matt McManusGUEST
Absolutely.
Matt McManusGUEST
So the term late capitalism was widely associated, especially by Jameson, with Ernst Mandel, the Marxist economist, right? So Mandel's book, Late Capitalism, is very complicated and well worth your time if anyone gets to look at it.
Matt McManusGUEST
He was also a fierce critic of neoliberalism.
Matt McManusGUEST
But one of the things that's characteristic of Mandel's work is that he's – doesn't have a lot of nostalgia for the golden years or the golden age of capitalism and social democracy, where even quite a few Marxists, then as now, tend to be fairly laudatory of the emergence of things like the welfare state, the rise of different labor movements and labor parties across Europe that did a lot to kind of chasten capitalism on, you know, a kind of center left reading.
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Trotskyist in the early 1930s and remained a Trotskyist to his death in 1967, although in his later years exiled in the USA, 1947-67, he was not active day to day.
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He was close to the Orthodox Trotskyist Ernest Mandel.
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although Rostovsky came to reject the orthodox Trotskyist scheme, naming the Stalinist countries, quote, degenerated and deformed workers' states, end quote.
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He is best known for the making of Marx's Capital, his monumental analysis of Marx's 1857-58 Grundeiser, when Rostovsky did his work on it, published in 1968 in German, 1976 in French, 1977 in English.
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Even so, the brutal language is out of tune with the basic ideas of Marx and Engels, and the false prognosis of inevitable assimilation has been, as Rostovsky says, quote, ruthlessly denied by the subsequent course of history.
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The work finally appeared in 1964 in German in the Archiv für Sozelgeschichte.
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Its English translation by John Paul Hymke came out only in 1986 and in French by Gerard Billy only in 2018. though Ernest Mandel in Quatreme Internationale, translated in Intercontinental Press, had given an appreciative summary of the work at the time of Rostolski's death in 1968.
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One correspondent, writing in 1980 to discourage the translation, warns that, quotes, the work as it stands could and certainly would be used by the opportunists to attack Marx's angles and can serve only to create confusion in the anti-imperialist movement, end quotes.