Leftist errors (Yugoslavia)
| Leftist errors | |
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| Part of World War II in Yugoslavia | |
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| Date | July 1941 – Spring 1942 |
| Deaths |
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| Perpetrator | Communist Party of Yugoslavia |
Leftist errors (Serbo-Croatian: leva/lijeva skretanja) was a term used by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) to describe radical policies and strategies – described as the Red Terror by others – pursued by self-described left-wing elements among the party and partisan units during World War II, mostly in Montenegro, Herzegovina and Serbia, as well as to a lesser extent in Croatia and Slovenia. From 1941 to 1942, these areas saw mass executions, burning of villages and confiscation of property, motivated both by partisan fears of a "fifth column" and class conflict. As a result of these actions by the communists, many villagers from Eastern Herzegovina and Montenegro, who were far from being collaborators or kulaks, joined Chetnik forces en masse. The Communist Party of Yugoslavia condemned actions undertaken during the period and punished several local commanders.
This policy was also referred to as Leftist deviation or Left-wing deviation,Left Errors or sectarian deviations. In Titoist dogma after World War II this policy was referred to as the "Mistakes of the left" or "left deviations" while the others referred to it as Red Terror. This policy is sometimes referred to as the "Second Stage".Karl Marx believed that revolution has two stages: bourgeois-democratic and proletarian. He believed that in the second stage the proletarian revolution has to turn against its allies from the first stage.
Josip Broz Tito was the main protagonist of the leftist deviations. Tito was well known as leftist who was against any arrangements with non-communists. His formal appointment as general secretary of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) was confirmed in October 1940 during the Fifth Land Conference of the CPY in Zagreb. At this conference Tito formulated the leftist strategy of the CPY as focused on revolutionary seizure of power in the country in order to organize Soviet-style administrative organization in Yugoslavia.
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