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A text by Karl Schröder, one of the foremen of the KAPD, on the road to a new society and the role of organization. Translated by Stijn Marcus of Council Communist Collective. Original text from: http://www.left-dis.nl/

In this text first published in the journal of the Bolshevik left communists, The Communist, in April 1918, Osinsky attacks Lenin’s economic policies (which he attributes to Lenin’s erroneous support for the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty) from a “left” perspective that champions working class supremacy in the “organization of production” (in the economic councils, etc.), advocates a policy of rigorous nationalization and promotion of “heavy industry” (coal, steel, railroads), and co...