This is some amazingly comedic footage: today, over 100 police officers raided the Tokyo headquarters of an ultra-leftist group. pic.twitter.com/YK4tuu27mw— Spoon & Tamago (@Johnny_suputama) October 16, 2020
The moment when the side door opens is just sublime
Ultra-left, as least as like Lenin used it, is the inability to ground analysis/praxis in the forms of working class struggle as they actually exist. An example Lenin uses in LWC is refusing to work in trade unions with objectively reactionary leadership, even when the working class is, in reality, actively turning towards those trade unions as avenues for struggle. The idea is that even if those unions, or bourgeois elections, are objectively not sufficient to achieve the goal of winning power for the working class, you still have to orient to those forms of struggle as they actually exist, to dispel illusions and put demands on leadership rather than wholesale refusing to engage.
"We can (and must) begin to build socialism, not with abstract human material, or with human material specially prepared by us, but with the human material bequeathed to us by capitalism."
Ultra-left, as least as like Lenin used it, is the inability to ground analysis/praxis in the forms of working class struggle as they actually exist. An example Lenin uses in LWC is refusing to work in trade unions with objectively reactionary leadership, even when the working class is, in reality, actively turning towards those trade unions as avenues for struggle. The idea is that even if those unions, or bourgeois elections, are objectively not sufficient to achieve the goal of winning power for the working class, you still have to orient to those forms of struggle as they actually exist, to dispel illusions and put demands on leadership rather than wholesale refusing to engage.