[STUDY GROUP] Left Communism

[Leo]

So here goes :)

I will vote for Open Letter to Comrade Lenin by Herman Gorter.

[Coggeh]

I'm willing too read number 2 please . Sounds interesting . I recommend infantile disorder by Lenin , was a good read .

[Rawthentic]

I'm hazy on left-communism, so I'll trust that Leo knows what he's doing.

I vote 1.

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

I voted #2 but I wouldn't say no to #1.

[Boriznov]

I voted for Workers Councils (book)

[Ander]

I voted Open Letter but I really want to read some Luxemburg.

[Tower of Bebel]

I voted world revolution and communist tactics.

[Leo]

I voted Open Letter but I really want to read some Luxemburg.

Perhaps we should make a Rosa Luxemburg Reading & Discussion Group after this one if one of her works doesn't get elected here.

[More Fire for the People]

I voted Open Letter. I don't really like Luxemburg's writing style. She kind of reads like a brick but she's very lucid and has very good warnings for the communist movement.

[Raúl Duke]

Can I join?

I would prefer anything from Anton Pannekoek.

I suppose I'll vote World Revolution and Communist Tactics. (but would'nt mind Workers Councils [book])

[Tower of Bebel]

Originally posted by [email protected] 13, 2007 08:38 pm
I voted Open Letter but I really want to read some Luxemburg.
Yes, Luxemburg seems very interesting. I would like to read Rosa on the Russian revolution once.

[Leo]

*Bump!*

[Tower of Bebel]

When does it start?

[Boriznov]

That's what i've been wondering for some time now.

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

The world is waiting.

[Tower of Bebel]

Cause I got exams within 3 weeks.

[Leo]

I will be leaving home on Thursday and I will be back in ten days - I don't think I will have time to post messages in the meanwhile. We can start now if everyone wants to, or we can wait for a month or so if you guys prefer until everyones exams are over.

[Coggeh]

ya ok month it is.

[Tower of Bebel]

Soemone got problems with the 23th of june to begin with? I finished my exams by then ;) .

[Boriznov]

I still have exams and i'm not sure i will be able to particapate because of work, i will let you guys know. Just do it when you guys want.

[Die Neue Zeit]

Can I add another work for study?

Ironically, this work is by Lenin himself, but I like to link it with my thread Why not an international socialist party? Internationals are too antequated (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=65355&view=findpost&p=1292298744).

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Crisis In Our Party (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm)

[More Fire for the People]

Originally posted by [email protected] 20, 2007 02:55 pm
Can I add another work for study?

Ironically, this work is by Lenin himself, but I like to link it with my thread Why not an international socialist party? Internationals are too antequated (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=65355&view=findpost&p=1292298744).

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Crisis In Our Party (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm)
We had a study group on this a while back now.
What is to be done? (http://www.revleft.com/index.php?showtopic=61969&st=0). It didn't go far.

[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ Nobody seems to be interested in studying Lenin these days, even if he slips in a few left-communist remarks. :(

[Rawthentic]

He does?

In what works?

[Die Neue Zeit]

^^^ Lots, from State and Revolution to The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky to the above book :)

[Rawthentic]

I've never read the latter.

Is it on MIA?

[Leo]

Yes, it is.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/work.../prrk/index.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/prrk/index.htm)

[Rawthentic]

And Leo, do you agree with Hammer that it presents a "left-communist" Lenin?

[Leo]

Well, technically speaking, "left communism" did not exist when Lenin wrote that but it is very well known that Lenin was on the left-wing of the Second International and on the left-wing of the Bolshevik Party (especially against Kamanev-Zinoviev-Stalin who called for supporting the Kerensky government and the imperialist war in order to support the "progressive-nationalist" bourgeoisie after the February revolution), and of course, internationally he was close to the left wing of the Second International, which, in the future, became the left wing of the Communist International.

[Tower of Bebel]

Any one eager to revive this study group?

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

I've been away for a while but I'm still game.

[Leo]

We are going to start on Monday if it's cool for everyone. I will send PMs to everyone who posted on the thread and who has shown interest.

[Tower of Bebel]

It's going to be world revolution by Pannekoek?

[AmbitiousHedonism]

I'd like to get in on a reading group on this...

[Leo]

It's going to be world revolution by Pannekoek?

Seems like it.

[Tower of Bebel]

I'll try to find a copy in Dutch, that would make it easier for me to analyse.

[Kropotkin Has a Posse]

I'd assume there'd be one, him being Dutch and all.