Ernest Mandel
"The Soviet Response"
From Stalinism to Eurocommunism
(London: NLB, 1978), p. 99.                  
     
"He affirmed that socialism and liberty were inseparable.

"This dialectic will continue. It will inevitably foster the rebirth of communist opposition in the
USSR and the People's Democracies. [Eastern Europe--mim3@mim.org] It will
objectively accelerate the progress towards an anti-bureaucratic political
revolution in these countries, a revolution which will consolidate their non-capitalist
socio-economic foundations."

[Why this quote was wrong: Trotskyists of all stripes including contemporary
and late leader Mandel thought that
when the Soviet regime would finally discredit itself beyond all repair
a new era of Trotskyist revolution would set in, and retain the
supposedly socialist aspects of the economies of the Soviet bloc.
Instead, the rulers they call "Stalinist," but which in fact were Menshevik
just like the Trotskyists, and which in fact had condemned Stalin,
these rulers ushered in open free-market capitalism and there was no workers'
political revolution.]