Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder - V.I. Lenin
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Should Revolutionaries Work in Reactionary Trade Unions?
Germans are attempting to leap straight from capitalism to communism, says Julian Zelizer. This idea represents not a truer or more legitimate marxism, but a rejection of corps markes principles and a generalized refusal to take the difficult work of strategy and tactics seriously," he writes. He uses the bolshevik experience as an example of why this, a priori rejection of trade unions, is childish and deeply counterproductive. In some ways one could argue that this vibrant, bottom up democracy was eroded overtime, when it comes to the early years of the socialist revolution in Russia,. But we can certainly have no doubt about its existence - socialism always exists in both top down and bottom up form
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