Ultra-leftism

The term ultra-leftism has two overlapping uses. It is used as a generally pejorative term for certain types of positions on the left that are seen as extreme or intransigent in particular ways (see far left). It is also used—whether pejoratively or not—to refer to a particular current of Marxist communism, which is closely related to council communism and left communism.

Groups who belong to the ultra-left current within left communism are often subject to these sorts of criticisms from the left. For example, the refusal of the International Communist Current to work with any other left groups except other left communist or internationalist anarchist groups, or Jean Barrot's critique of anti-fascism which argues that all bourgeois regimes should be opposed, and that revolutionaries should not defend liberal democracy against fascism.