“If the workers movement lets itself be led around by the nose without offering any resistance and allows its power to be taken from it step by step, at the first sharp change in the economic situation some clever adventurer could easily be inspired to really try to smash it. The resistance which has not been prepared in persistent daily battles over many years will certainly not fall miraculously from heaven at the last minute.”
-Ernest Mandel from the introduction of Trotsky’s The Struggle Against Facism in Germany