Editing Marxism (section)

====[[File:LeftCom.png]] [[Italian Left Communism|Left]] [[Council Communism|Communism]] [[File:Councom.png]]====
Left communism, or the communist left, is a position held by the left wing of communism, which criticizes the political ideas and practices espoused by [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|Marxist–Leninists]] and [[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy|social democrats]]. Left communists assert positions that they regard as more authentically Marxist than the views of Marxism–Leninism espoused by the Communist International after its Bolshevization by Joseph Stalin and during its second congress.

In general, there are two currents of left communism, namely the Italian and Dutch–German left. The communist left in Italy was formed during World War I in organizations like the Italian Socialist Party and the Communist Party of Italy. The Italian left considers itself to be Leninist in nature, but denounces Marxism–Leninism as a form of bourgeois opportunism materialized in the Soviet Union under Stalin. The Italian left is currently embodied in organizations such as the Internationalist Communist Party and the International Communist Party. The Dutch-German left split from Vladimir Lenin before Stalin's rule and supports a firmly council communist viewpoint as opposed to the Italian left which emphasized the need for an international revolutionary party.