Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder

Posted on 06 October 2017 by Vladimir Lenin

Left Wing Communism, An Infantile Disorder A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics Vladimir Ilich Lenin 1870 1924 was the founder of the Russian Communist Party Bolsheviks , inspirer and leader of Bolshevik Revolution 1917 , and the architect, builder, and first head 1917 24 of the Soviet State He was the founder of the organization known as Comintern Communist International and the posthumous source of Leninism, the doctrine codified and conjoined with Marx s works by Lenin s successors to form Marxism Leninism, which became the Communist world view. If the Bolshevik Revolution is as some people have called it the most significant political event of the 20th century, then Lenin must for good or ill be regarded as the century s most significant political leader Not only in the scholarly circles of the former Soviet Union but even among many non Communist scholars, he has been regarded as the greatest revolutionary leader and revolutionary statesman in history, as well as the greatest revolutionary thinker since Marx. Read Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder – kino-fada.fr Einstein once said that by the standards of epistemology, any scientist worth his salt will appear to be an unprincipled opportunist Lenin here saysor less the same thing about revolutionaries The ruthless struggle for power knows nothing of the purity of means.Of course it s also true that Lenin only got to the point of seizing power by taking an extremely principled stance against the First World War and thus breaking with the Second International He was willing to endure years of bei Einstein once said that by the standards of epistemology, any scientist worth his salt will appear to be an unprincipled opportunist Lenin here saysor less the same thing about revolutionaries The ruthless struggle for power knows nothing of the purity of means.Of course it s also true that Lenin only got to the point of seizing power by taking an extremely principled stance against the First World War and thus breaking with the Second International He was willing to endure years of being small and isolated as a result, but, you see, that was never the point.An interesting text Whatever one thinks of Lenin today, we all should be able to agree that the man just ain t ever coming back No sense, then, for comrades to get nostalgic or eschatological While it s true that socialism has been on the rise, obviously at the moment there s nothing like a revolutionary left capable of seizing power 2017 is quite unlikely to repeat 1917 in this respect If we want to find an analogy to ...I just recently reread this book and was blown away by the power and applicability today of Lenin s critique of anarchism and ultra leftism Tactics are not to be raised to the level of principle we assess a particular situation at a given time and relate to it in the manner most likely to advance workers struggle This means aiming to build actions and movements that can have a mass character, wherever possible Where mass organization is impossible, as under Tsarist Russia, different tactics I just recently reread this book and was blown away by the power and applicability today of Lenin s critique of anarchism and ultra leftism Tactics are not to be raised to the level of principle we assess a particular situation at a given time and relate to it in the manner most likely to advance workers struggle This means aiming to build actions and movements that can have a mass character, wherever possible Where mass organization is impossible, as under Tsarist Russia, different tactics are called for, but the impracticability of some particular tactic does not become a pass for abstentionism.Lenin is helpful also in making the argument that anarchism is an expression of the class aspirations of the...Lenin doesn t give arguments for his claims but only calls opposing viewpoints childish, petit bourgeois, and stupid A total jackass.I guess if you re trying to lead a party to dictatorship this is a fair pamphlet against reasonable criticisms.Most of the content of the book is dated and isn t relevant to today s situation but the principles that led to left deviations in the communist movement still persist among the left today It is because of the same undialectical thinking that ultra leftists today support the imperialist backed salafist rebels in the Syrian conflict against the national bourgeois government of Syria Because for them, nationalism has one and only one character and can only serve a reactionary purpose The fact t Most of the content of the book is dated and isn t relevant to today s situation but the principles that led to left deviations in the communist movement still persist among the left today It is because of the same undialectical thinking that ultra leftists today support the imperialist backed salafist rebels in the Syrian conflict against the national bourgeois government of Syria Because for them, nationalism has one and only one character an...As a text on its own merits it reads with some degree of consistency But when you actually bother to compare it to the ultra leftists hes challenging it does not hold all that much water The methods and the party form he advocates has been tried numerous times and invariably leads to the worse form of substution of the class by the party you can imagine The arguements wi...Definitely Lenin s worst book, and basically his only major misstep Some really good insights into the role of the vanguard, anti dogmatism, the necessity of legal as well as illegal work, etc but I m not really convinced at all by most of the concrete recommendations, including participation in parliamentary democracy and to a lesser extent entry into reactionary trade unions Despite anti dogmatism being a...If you ve ever wondered why the left is in such disarray, one need go any further than honestly studying Lenin This is a must read for the left.This is one of those books that Lenin reveals himself as all tactic and no democratic By all means read everything you can about Lenin and understand how he prepped us for Stalin All the important characteristics later called Stalinist repression, labour camps, the suppression of dissent, the destruction of unions and the peasantry, and an official d If you ve ever wondered why the left is in such disarray, one need go any further than honestly studying Lenin This is a must read for the left.This is one of those books that Lenin reveals himself as all tactic and no democratic By all means read everything you can about Lenin and understand how he prepped us for Stalin All the important characteristics later called Stalinist repression, labour camps, the suppression of dissent, the destruction of unions and the peasantry, and an official dogma enforced by the state were created from 1917 onwards when Lenin and Trotsky held power.Perhaps the most important thing to remember about Lenin is that he was all for a highly centralized part...yeah yeah ultraleftists are dicks I guess they re the leftwing analog of teabaggers fascists objectivists to the extent that they may not want to compromise with the center left at all in the name of doctrinal perfection whateverI mMarxist than you rants from Lenin.

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06 October 2017

Vladimir Lenin