Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder - V.I. Lenin
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Lennon's Opportunism, Social Chauvinism and Left Wing Communism
Lennon: opportunism is the tendency for right wing and pro capitalist elements to emerge within the socialist movement. The other one would be social chauvinism, which usually includes siding with imperialist bourgeoisie. All of these people within the left engage in a form of social chauvanism that tacitly supports imperialism while justifying it through revolutionary and marxis language. So finally, left wing communism is still different from both reformist and social democratic factions inside socialism.
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