"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder is a work by Vladimir Lenin attacking assorted critics of the Bolsheviks who claimed positions to their left. Most of these critics were proponents of ideo
First English edition, published by the Executive Committee of the Communist International for delegates to its 2nd World Congress
Amadeo Bordiga
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Amadeo Bordiga was an Italian revolutionary socialist and Marxist. He was most prominent in the 1920s, which is when he founded the Communist Party of Italy. Over time he fell out of favor with the pa
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder
…in parliaments, communists must work inside such reactionary organisations. Lenin then compares the anti-parliamentarism of the Dutch left and that of Amadeo Bordiga. Lenin then criticises the slogan "no compromises", noting that the Bolsheviks had made many compromises in their history. He believes that this is…
Bordiga in a 1920 drawing by Soviet painter Isaak Brodsky