situation from within. All three objectives could be achieved if the genuine left would recognise the importance of this kind of tactic fight parliamentary battles, to engage in the old-style negotations with the bosses is to give ourselves and our comrades not the experience ot power, but the experience of emasculation.
Left communism still exists and it still presents its problems. But a more serious threat has come from Right/Reformist "communism" whose hand has bureaucratised the movement. As Lenin's centenary falls we can once more quote the final words of his pamphlet with confidence:
"World revolution has received such a powerful impetus and acceleration from the horrors, vileness and abominations of the world imperialist war and from the hopelessness of the situation it created -this revolution is developing in breadth and depth with such magnificent rapidity, with such a splendid variety of changing forms, with such instructive practical refutation of all doctrinairism, that there is every reason to hope for a rapid and complete recovery of the international communist movement...
Only the last words. "from the infantile die
ZINOVIEV Shot URITSKY Dead KAMENEV Shot BUKHARIN Shot TROTSKY In Exile NOGIN Dead LENIN SVERDLOV RYKOV Dead Dead Shot BUBNOV DZERZHINSK Y SOKOLNIKOV Disappeared Dead In Prison