Honestly wtf even is a left-comm? I've only seen that as an online term.
Lenin did write a whole thing about it called "Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder" so it's not JUST online. But I feel like there's not much to talk about IRL given how smol and sad our current left movement is.
Infantile Disorder was wirtten before Bordigist faction became relevant in Italy. So that book is clearly not about what modern left coms identify with
Gotcha. I never read it and I don't understand left coms so thanks for the clarification!
People who believe "real socialism/communism has never been attempted/achieved"
(This is an incredibly oversimplified version)
Couldn't really disagree more. Maybe on communism, but not for socialism.
I don't think historical anarchists believed in socialism/communism distinction. I might be wrong tho
Oh if we're talking like early Soviet era no I don't think there was typically a distinction, so I think you're right.
I was talking more contemporary.
A tendency of Marxists that came about after the soviet union was established who were opposed to the bolsheviks for a variety of reasons. They never existed in huge numbers and they're basically dead as a group nowadays which is why you will never hear about them outside of drama on left twitter
Left communism, or the communist left, is a position held by the left wing of communism, which criticises the political ideas and practices espoused by Marxist–Leninists and social democrats. Left communists assert positions which they regard as more authentically Marxist than the views of Marxism–Leninism espoused by the Communist International after its Bolshevization by Joseph Stalin and during its second congress.
In general, there are two currents of left communism, namely the Italian and Dutch–German left. The communist left in Italy was formed during World War I in organizations like the Italian Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Italy. The Italian left considers itself to be Leninist in nature, but denounces Marxism–Leninism as a form of bourgeois opportunism materialized in the Soviet Union under Stalin. The Italian left is currently embodied in organizations such as the Internationalist Communist Party (Battaglia Comunista) and the International Communist Party. The Dutch–German left split from Vladimir Lenin prior to Stalin's rule and supports a firmly council communist and libertarian Marxist viewpoint as opposed to the Italian left which emphasised the need for an international revolutionary party.
Left communism differs from most other forms of Marxism in believing that communists should not participate in bourgeois parliaments, and some argue against participating in conservative trade unions. However, many left communists split over their criticism of the Bolsheviks. Council communists criticised the Bolsheviks for elitist party functions and emphasised a more autonomous organisation of the working class, without political parties.
Although she was murdered in 1919 before the communist left appeared as a distinct current, Rosa Luxemburg has heavily influenced most left communists. Proponents of left communism have included Amadeo Bordiga, Onorato Damen, Jacques Camatte, Herman Gorter, Antonie Pannekoek, Otto Rühle, Sylvia Pankhurst and Paul Mattick.
says Wikipedia
Well, if you actually read Marx's unreleased manuscripts on the Paris Commune, you would understand that creating a shield wall to protect protesters only legitimizes the coercive arm of the capitalist state & the capitalist mode of the production, itself ☕ 🛋️
looks like occupy oakland j28. ah, the protest days before everyone wore masks and goggles.
