TheFinnishBolshevik | Communism for beginners: "Left"-Wing Communism by LENIN (Episode 6) @thefinnishbolshevik2404 | Uploaded November 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
This time we discuss Chapter 5 of Lenin's book "LEFT-WING COMMUNISM": AN INFANTILE DISORDER.

Chapter 5 deals with the question of leaders. The German "Left-Communists" (influenced by Erler, Pannekoek etc.) claimed that the movement shouldn't have leaders but only "the masses" and it should build a dictatorship of the class "not of the party". Some of them went so far that they claimed all parties are bourgeois, and communists should not have parties.

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
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