“Left-Wing Communism” is the most
important writing for the world Communist movement to have appeared
after the Great October Revolution of 1917. It was written directly for
the delegates of the Second World Congress of the Commintern in 1920,
and it is an unsurpassable historical outline of how the
necessary majority of the working class can secure their consciousness
and organize themselves and create the discipline they need, not by the
moralizing appeals and phrases, but as the result of a protracted
historical process of class struggle.
The central idea of it is, from the first line to the final line, that the Communists of all countries must not just understand, but really must learn for which goals, along which avenues and by which methods the majority of the working class can be won over, away from the capitalist ascendancy and its reformist demagoguery, and towards the side fighting for socialist democracy, and for the dictatorship of the proletariat.
That is why there is a need of unity in the Communist movement and the absolute necessity for the rebirth of the Communist International!
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