num_pages: 154
description: In the years during the Russian Revolution, Lenin's strategy of a centralized Communist Party was criticized by the Council Communists, who advocated a democratic movement based on decentralized elected workers councils. This volume presents Lenin's attack on the Council Communists, and response from German Councilist Hermann Gorter.
language: English
title: Lenin and the Left: Left-Wing Communism an Infantile Disorder, and the Response from the Council Communists