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Left Communism Reader: Writings on Capitalism and Revolution

Left Communism Reader: Writings on Capitalism and Revolution

Paperback

Social Movements

ISBN10: 1482365871
ISBN13: 9781482365870
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 5 2013
Pages: 720
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.44 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Left communism is the range of communist viewpoints held by the communist left, which criticizes the political ideas of the Bolsheviks at certain periods, from a position that is asserted to be more authentically Marxist and proletarian than the views of Leninism held by the Communist International after its first and during its second congress. Left Communists see themselves to the left of Leninists (whom they tend to see as 'left of capital', not socialists), anarchist communists (some of whom they consider internationalist socialists) as well as some other revolutionary socialist tendencies (for example De Leonists, who they tend to see as being internationalist socialists only in limited instances). Although she died before left communism became a distinct tendency, Rosa Luxemburg has heavily influenced most left communists, both politically and theoretically. Proponents of left communism have included Amadeo Bordiga, Otto R

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