Lenin and the Left: Left-Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder, and the Response from the Council Communists

by Vladimir Lenin, Herman Gorter

In the years during the Russian Revolution, Lenin's strategy of a centralized Communist Party was criticized by the Council Communists, who advocated a democratic movement based on decentralized elected workers councils. This volume presents Lenin's attack on the Council Communists, and response from German Councilist Hermann Gorter.

Genres: Politics

154 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 7, 2010

About the author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), statesman and political theorist. After the October Revolution he served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924.

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[Thomas Essel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Synopsis: Lenin throws a fit because someone disagrees with him, then insults Sylvia Pankhurst for no apparent reason. Some men, equally bruised, respond. This is the 1920s equivalent of an argument between Intellectual Men (tm) on Facebook