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Communism is emerging in positively every sphere of public life; its beginnings are to be seen literally on all sides.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
Classes still remain, and will remain everywhere for years after the proletariat's conquest of power.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
The proletarian vanguard has been won over ideologically.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
For any truth, if overdone (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
One will readily agree that any army which does not train to use all the weapons, all the means and methods of warfare that the enemy possesses, or may possess, is behaving in an unwise or even criminal manner. This applies to politics even more than it does to the art of war.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
The abolition of classes means, not merely ousting the landowners and the capitalists - that is something we accomplished with comparative ease; it also means abolishing the small commodity producers, and they cannot be ousted, or crushed; we must learn to live with them.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
We are waging a struggle against the "labour aristocracy" in the name of the masses of the workers and in order to win them over to our side; we are waging struggle against he opportunist and social chauvinist leaders in order to win the working class over to our side.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)
I repeat: the experience of the notorious dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia has clearly shown even to those who are incapable of thinking or have had no occasion to give thought to the matter that absolute centralisation and rigorous discipline in the proletariat are an essential condition of victory over the bourgeoisie.
Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920)