I've noticed that most people immediately think of Bordigism when the hear about Left Communism. However, there are actually two currents of Left Communism: German and Italian. Italian Left Communists are the Bordigists that we regularly see around here, which I don't know much about. German Left Communists are Council Communists, essentially. They stress the importance of Workers' Councils and reject the vanguard. The Marxist Internet Archive and the Wikipedia Page are helpful on this particular subject, so I shall link them. What do you guys think of the two strains?
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David Ortiz
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Elijah Baker
you forgot about synthesists.
Christian Martinez
What are they?
Colton Sullivan
Isn't council communism a mix of marxism with syndicalism?
Wyatt Jones
What is this, chemistry?
Robert Thomas
basically trying to synthesize italian left-communism and the dutch/german current. Basically the french current (Dauvé, Camatte) and the ICC (international communist current).
Brayden Nguyen
definitely not. Councilists were staunchly anti-union.
Xavier Long
Leftgoms what is your opinion on fabianism
Luis Garcia
Not too dissimilar and both fit the umbrella of libcom, but council communism comes entirely from an orthodox Marxist basis. Its pioneers (Pannekoek and Rühle) were also very critical of anarchism and 20th century syndicalists because of the frontist strategies (cooperation with reformists like social democrats) they employed to gain traction at risk of betrayal.