Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

---

We discuss the 4th chapter "The Struggle Against Which Enemies Within the Working-Class Movement Helped Bolshevism Develop, Gain Strength, and Become Steeled" of Lenin's famous book “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder.

In this video we mostly focus on the topics:
-What are ultra-leftism and right-wing opportunism?
-is ultra-leftism actually revolutionary?
-the ultra-left outlook vs the marxist outlook
-what kind of tactical compromises are possible?

Big thanks to comrade @king.katzer on instagram for making the thumbnail graphic and the black white portrait of Lenin!

The text
marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch04.htm

Audio book
youtube.com/watch?v=YKWYoRTyfdk

Previous videos in the series
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnLysSug0vR4-29AGfaHOYJLnSt3ihF2

Read more about the history of the bolshevik party:
marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1939/x01
---------------------------------
My patreon
patreon.com/TheFinnishBolshevik

My discord
discord.gg/DjT5P7GfbD

My blog
mltheory.wordpress.com