Left Communism
Left communism is a set of Marxist tendencies, Italian and German-Dutch, that criticised Bolshevism from the left. They reject participation in parliaments, alliances with reformist parties and national liberation movements, insisting on strict class independence and world revolution.
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Internally split: Italian currents favour a centralised party, German-Dutch currents favour councils.
Rejects parliamentary democracy but supports rule by the working class; views on party role vary.
Accepts a revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat while opposing bourgeois states.
Rejects all nationalism, including national liberation movements, as a core principle.
Opposes all wars between states as imperialist, while accepting revolutionary class struggle.
Treats national and cultural identity as secondary to class unity.
Seeks complete abolition of capital, wage labour and private property.
Envisions a planned communist economy, but not via a state capitalist bureaucracy.
Does not engage with trade policy; regards both free trade and protection as capitalist.
Firmly materialist and secular.
Socially progressive in outlook, though it subordinates identity issues to class.
Accepts technological development as the basis for a post-scarcity communist society.