Obsolete Communism The Left-Wing Alternative

First published in Germany (as Linksradikalismus - Gewaltkur gegen die

Alterskrankheit des Kommunismus) and in France (as Le gauchisme - remède à

la maladie sénile du communisme) 1968

This translation first published by André Deutsch Ltd 1968

Published in Penguin Books 1969

French and German versions copyright © Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag

G M B H, Reinbeck bei Hamburg, 1968

Translation copyright © André Deutsch Ltd and Penguin Books Ltd, 1968

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