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Left-wing communism in Britain 1917- 21...An infantile disorder? - Bob Jones

A survey of the anti-parliamentarist communist movement in Britain during and after WWI, and the effects of Comintern/Bolshevik directives on the efforts at organisational unity. A Lenin's famous manual of reformism, "Left Wing" Communism, an Infantile Disorder(1920), which directed Communists to work within parliament and existing labour unions, was partly a response to British anti-parliamentarism. This short work was written in 1984 as an article for the journal 'Black Star'. `Black Star' expired before the article appeared and it eventually appeared in print in 1989 in the Grand Rapids based 'Discussion Bulletin' and later in a slightly revised form in `The Raven' (No. 11, 1990). [This version was published by Pirate Press, Sheffield, UK, 1991.]

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