left communism
“Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925
Loren Goldner's detailed history of the official communist movement and the communist left in Turkey around the time of the Russian revolution.
All information on the situation in Khiva, in Persia, in Bukhara and in Afghanistan confirm the fact that a Soviet revolution in these countries is going to cause us major difficulties at the present time…Until the situation in the West is stabilized and until our industries and transport systems have improved, a Soviet expansion in the east could prove to be no less dangerous than a
The Communist Left in Russia after 1920
Left communists in Russia after 1920 who resisted the Bolshevik Party dictatorship.
INTRODUCTION
Bordiga versus Pannekoek - Antagonism
Introduction to a pamphlet examining how the Italian and Dutch-German communist lefts dealt with the questions of communist organisation, consciousness and class.
This article was originally published with, and refers to, the articles:
Party and Class, by Amadeo Bordiga
Party and Class, by Anton Pannekoek
The Communist Left in Germany 1918-1921 - Gilles Dauvé and Denis Authier
A analysis of the revolutionary movements in Europe at the end of World War I, their contradictions and limitations.
First published in France in 1976, as 'La Gauche Communiste en Allemagne (1918-1921)'. English translation by M. DeSocio published in 2006. Taken from the Collective Action Notes website.
The biggest ‘october surprise’ of all: a world capitalist crash - Loren Goldner
Loren Goldner's analysis of the recent global financial crisis.
Loren Goldner
October 2008
“There will be periods of 30 years which will pass with the seeming importance of a single day, and single days with the importance of 30 years.” (old Marxist maxim)
Left communism and its ideology - Oisin Mac Giollamoir
An introduction and critique by a member of the Irish Workers Solidarity Movement of left communism.
Introduction
Left-Wing Communism in Britain 1917-21...An Infantile Disorder? - Bob Jones
A survey of the anti-parliamentarist communist movement in Britain during and after WWI, and the effects of Comintern/Bolshevik directives on the efforts at organisational unity.
Lenin's famous manual of reformism, "Left Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder(1920), which directed Communists to work within parliament and existing labour unions, was partly a response to British anti-parliamentarism.
The International Communist Current and Norway: a critique by Mortiva Forlag
Some criticisms of the ICC's interpretation of reality. Originally published by some Norwegian communists called 'Mortiva Forlag', who for a while in the 1980s published useful reports on class struggles in Scandinavia.
(A few grammatical errors and spelling mistakes in the article have been corrected here.)
Originally published by 'Mortiva Forlag', Norway, in November 1989.
Reprinted by 'Echanges Et Mouvement' in Echanges no. 62, London, Oct-Dec 1989.
An Introduction to Left Communism in Germany from 1914 to 1923
On the Origins and Early Years of Working Class Revolutionary Politics:
An Introduction to 'Left Communism' in Germany from 1914 to 1923
DG, 1994
Introduction and Overview
