Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

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Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder is a 1920 pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin that critiques ultra-left tendencies within the communist movement and defends a pragmatic, strategic approach to revolutionary politics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
non-fiction work
political pamphlet
advocates participation in bourgeois parliaments
pragmatic revolutionary tactics
work within reactionary trade unions
arguesAgainst boycott of parliamentary elections
refusal to work in reformist trade unions
arguesFor flexible tactics in class struggle
learning from mass experience
author Vladimir Lenin
commissionedFor Third International
surface form: Second Congress of the Communist International
countryOfOrigin Russian SFSR
surface form: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
criticizes left communism
revolutionary phrase-mongering
sectarianism
ultra-left tendencies in the communist movement
doctrinalBasis Marxism–Leninism
surface form: Marxism-Leninism
genre Marxist theory
political theory
hasEnglishTitle Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder self-link
historicalContext early Communist International
post-October Revolution period
influenced strategy of communist parties in the 1920s
intendedAudience members of the Communist International
revolutionary socialists
keyConcept discipline in the communist party
infantile disorder
relation between party and masses
revolutionary realism
mainSubject communism
parliamentary participation
revolutionary strategy
trade union work
ultra-leftism
movement Communist International literature
originalLanguage Russian
originalTitle Детская болезнь "левизны" в коммунизме
placeInAuthorCorpus late work of Vladimir Lenin
politicalPosition Leninism
surface form: Bolshevism
publicationYear 1920
relatedWork The State and Revolution
surface form: State and Revolution

What Is to Be Done?
surface form: What Is To Be Done?
supports centralized communist party
tactical compromises
united front tactics
writtenBy Vladimir Lenin

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Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder hasEnglishTitle Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder self-link
Vladimir Lenin notableWork Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder