“Left-wing” Communism: Reading and discussion guides

Sep 21, 2018

From "Man at the crossroads," by Diego Rivera. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

In July-October 2018, the Party for Socialism and Liberation undertook a party-wide study of Lenin’s “Left-Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder. Here we share our edited materials so other communists and progressives can collectively study this key work. These materials include a reading and discussion guide, as well as answers to each.

PDFs of study materials:

Readings:

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queens College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan’s article, “Pragmatism and rightist opportunism,” it was published in the 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the People's...