12 Facts About Left communism

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.

Proponents of left communism have included Amadeo Bordiga, Onorato Damen, Jacques Camatte, Herman Gorter, Antonie Pannekoek, Otto Ruhle, Sylvia Pankhurst and Paul Mattick.

Left communism first came into focus as a distinct movement around 1918.

Left communism Bolshevism emerged in 1907 as the Vpered group challenged Vladimir Lenin's perceived authoritarianism and parliamentarianism.

The Left communism Communists wanted international proletarian revolution across the world.

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Left communism Communists faded as the world revolutionary wave died down in militancy as Lenin had proved too strong a figure.

In many ways, the positions of the Left communism Communists were inherited by the Workers' Opposition faction and Gavril Myasnikov's Workers Group of the Russian Communist Party and to some extent by the Decists.

Left communism took a stance of non-involvement in politics for many years after this.

Left communism emerged in both countries together and was always very closely connected.

Left communism communists supported the Russian revolution, but did not accept the methods of the Bolsheviks.

In 1941, the Italian fraction was reorganised in France and along with the new French Nucleus of the Communist Left communism came into conflict with the ideas which the fraction had propagated from 1936, namely of the social disappearance of the proletariat and localised wars and so on.

Left communism communists entered a period of almost constant decline from this point onwards, although they were somewhat rejuvenated by the events of 1968.