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Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder - V.I. Lenin
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Lenon's Rejection of a Transition Period
Left communists who think you can jump from capitalism to communism are wrong in the same way that it's wrong to think you can teach advanced physics to a toddler. To not understand this is to fall prey to the very same error of rejecting a transition period. Lenin sums up his opposition to this line of thought well when he says that we must begin to build socialism, not with imaginary human material but with the human material bequeathed to us by capitalism.
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