"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Author_Ted Grant By Adam Booth and Rob

By Adam Booth and Rob Sewell

historical memory

from 1943–1945

First published in French in 1936

"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Author_Ted Grant By Adam Booth and RobThe Bolsheviks led the workers to power in the October Revolution of 1917. To ensure its survival, they grappled with the task of spreading the revolution beyond Russia. "Left Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder was written in 1920 to educate the newly formed communist parties of the Third International, and to correct the ultra left, sectarian trends that infected many of them. Inspired by the revolution and repelled by the betrayals of social