The Lie bracket of vector fields is bilinear, alternating, satisfies the Jacobi identity, and is natural under diffeomorphisms. Therefore the bracket of two left-invariant vector fields is left-invariant. Define
(1)
Then
(2)
and the inherited bilinearity, alternation, and Jacobi identity make a Lie algebra.

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