Amadeo Bordiga
Italian left communist who split from the reformist Socialist Party, formed the Communist Party of Italy and contributed heavily to a critique of the Soviet Union.
Auschwitz - the Big Alibi
The leftist press has just demonstrated once again that racism, and especially anti-Semitism, is somehow the great alibi of the anti-fascist: It is their cause célèbre and always their last refuge in discussions. Who can withstand the evocation of the extermination camps and the death furnaces? Who doesn't bow their head before the six million assassinated Jews? Who doesn't shudder before the sadism of the Nazis? Nevertheless, it is one of the anti-fascists' most scandalous mystifications, as we propose here to demonstrate.
A recent leaflet of the M.R.A.P. (Movement against Racism, Anti-semitism and for Peace) attributed to Nazism the blame for the death of 50 million human beings, of whom 6 million were Jews. This position identical to the fascist warmongers slogan of self-styled communists, is typically bourgeois.
Notes on Trotsky, Pannekoek, Bordiga - Gilles Dauvé
Comments on the politics and contributions to revolutionary communist theory of Leon Trotsky, Anton Pannekoek and Amadeo Bordiga.
It may be interesting to examine these three men, not as individuals, but as standpoints, because in the eyes of many people who try to understand something in our time, they represent three different situations and analyses.
I
Resolution of the conference of the Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party
1920 text showing how the left wing of the Italian Socialist Party initially held anti-parliamentarist positions, prior to the Second Congress of the Communist International.
The National Conference of the abstentionist communist fraction of the Socialist Party of Italy was held in Florence on May 8 and 9, 1920.1
- 1. We include this short text of the Italian Left (extracted from Il Soviet and published by Kommunismus) in this collection because it shows, in opposition to the legend maintained by Bordiga and the Bordigists, that the entire Italian Left was actually more
Bordiga versus Pannekoek - Antagonism
Introduction to a pamphlet examining how the Italian and Dutch-German communist lefts dealt with the questions of communist organisation, consciousness and class.
This article was originally published with, and refers to, the articles:
Party and Class, by Amadeo Bordiga
Party and Class, by Anton Pannekoek
Bordiga'ya karşı Pannekoek
Parti, Sınıf ve Komünizm
Бордига против Паннекука
Партия, класс и коммунизм
Murdering the dead: Amadeo Bordiga on capitalism and other disasters - Antagonism
Antagonism's introduction to a collection of articles by Amadeo Bordiga, looking at how capitalism both exacerbates, and creates, supposedly 'natural' disasters.
Capitalism and other disasters
Этот хрупкий полуостров развалится под наплывом тщетных, двусмысленных и стерильных «специальных законов» (если до этого не падёт ржавая машина капиталистического выборного государства) - Амадео Бордига
4 ноября 1966 г. Флоренция была полностью затоплена водами Арно, впервые за свою историю. 27 человек погибло и был нанесён серьёзнейший ущерб историческому и художественному наследию. В те же дни произошли потопы по всей северной Италии.
СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ МОЛОДЁЖЬ И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ - Амадео Бордига
Поскольку Центральный Комитет изменил – весьма удачно – формулировку параграфа 9° O.d.G.
Тезисы об исторических задачах - Амадео Бордига
1. – Вопросы, которые исторически считаются относящимися к идеологии и доктрине партии, её деятельности в последовательно складывающихся исторических обстоятельствах и следовательно к её программе, тактике и организационной структуре, рассматриваются как одно целое, и в ходе борьбы Левой о них говорилось и заявлялось множество раз, но об её видоизменениях никогда не упоминалось.
