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Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder - V.I. Lenin

Red Menace

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What Is the Difference Between Opportunism and Revisionism?

i'm interested to find just how, like, entrench this idea that national liberation is a bad thing. And it's often national liberation struggles that are the very thing that sort of clears the way for a more robust socialist project. So my question is, and what is to be done? Lenen argues that freedom of criticism in anti dogmatism can be rhetorical techniques that right opportunists use to question revolutionary trajectories within socialism. How do we deter when these rhetorical approaches are operating in good faith and when they're trojean horse for opportunism?

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