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.
Bordigism - Adam Buick
Article by Adam Buick looking at the later writings of Amadeo Bordiga on the content of communism.
In 1975 a pamphlet called Un Monde sans argent: le communisme (A World Without Money: Communism) was published in France. The authors argued for the immediate establishment of a moneyless, communist society:
The Story Of Our Origins - La Banquise
Some sections of "le roman de nos origines" from La Banquise No. 2 ( 1983 ) in english translation.
Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
Goldner assesses Bordiga's contribution to communist theory.
Towards the establishment of workers' councils in Italy (1920)
Amadeo Bordiga's contribution to a programme of setting up workers' councils in Italy as a way of surpassing the reformist trade unions.
Marxism of the Stammerers
The decontamination to which we dedicate 90% of our humble work will be continued a long time after us and be realised only in the distant future. This decontamination combats the epidemic - always and everywhere dangerous, of those who - in all places and at all times - innovate, bring up to date, renovate and revise...
Amadeo Bordiga 1952
First Published: Battaglia Comunista No. 8, 17-20 April 1952;
The System of Communist Representation
Bordiga's critique of the wing of the Italian socialist movement which advocated participation in elections.
Amadeo Bordiga May 1919
First Published: Il Soviet, 13 September 1919, Vol. II, No.38;The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation
Amadeo Bordiga's contribution to a programme of what fundamental principles communist organisations should organise themselves around, explaining historical materialism and criticising the Bolshevik conception of socialism in the process.
Amadeo Bordiga 1946
The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation
Introduction to the Bordiga archive
Introduction to the Amadeo Bordiga archive on the Libertarian Communist Library
Bordiga (1889-1970) was an influential member of the Italian communist movement and leader of the Absentionist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party and for a time leader of the Italian Communist Party, before resigning in favour of Gramsci, under pressure from Lenin.
Murder of the Dead
Bordiga explains Marx's economics and argues that state monopoly over the economy (i.e. nationalisation) is no more socialist than private monopoly.
In Italy, we have long experience of "catastrophes that strike the country" and we also have a certain specialisation in "staging" them. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, rainstorms, epidemics...
Letters to the 3rd International - Amadeo Bordiga
Letters from the Central Committee of Amadeo Bordiga's Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party to the Moscow Committee of the 3rd International, November 1919 and January 1920 regarding issues within the Italian Socialist Party around the issues of elections and the Italian war effort in WW1.
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Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party
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