The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900-1968)
'Neither Lenin nor Trotsky nor Stalin! - All Workers Must Think for Themselves!
The Dutch-German Communist Left, represented by the German KAPD-AAUD, the Dutch KAPN, and the Bulgarian Communist Workers Party, separated from the Communist International in 1921, and famously attracted the ire of Lenin, who wrote his Left Wing Communism in response. Drawing on a wide breadth of first hand material, this volume examines the history, ideas, and legacy of this tendency.
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"Given that it was the target of Lenin’s Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder, it has taken surprisingly long for a comprehensive study of the Left Communist breakaway from the Third International to emerge in English [...] Bourrinet’s book shows just how relevant the issues with which Left Communism grappled so relentlessly remain in our time."
—Michael Keaney, Capital & Class