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.
Seize Power or Seize the Factory? - Amadeo Bordiga
Amadeo Bordiga's commentary on the Italian factory occupation movement as well as his view for how the movement should move forward.
The working-class disturbances of the past few days in Liguria have seen yet another example of a phenomenon that for some time now has been repeated with some frequency, and that deserves to be examined as a symptom of a new level of consciousness among the working masses.
Proletarian dictatorship and class party
Bordiga's text on the role of the workers' party in the class struggle and enforcement of proletarian power.
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Every class struggle is a political struggle (Marx).
A struggle which limits itself to obtaining a new distribution of economic gains is not yet a political struggle because it is not directed against the social structure of the production relations.
Party and class - Amadeo Bordiga
Amadeo Bordiga's thesis on the relationship of communist militants to the rest of the working class.
[i]The text published here appeared in 1921 in the theoretical review of the Communist Party of Italy, Rassegna Comunista ("Partito e classe", Rassegna Comunista no 2, April 15, 1921).
Class struggle and "bosses' offensives" - Amadeo Bordiga
Amadeo Bordiga's critique of revisionist forms of Marxism arguing against reformism and in favour an offensive communist politics.
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The mistakes in the practice of the proletarian struggle and the ruinous deviations from it, which are a feature of the First World War period, the Second World War and this postwar period, are closely linked to confusion about the cardinal points of the Marxist method.
Murder of the Dead
In Italy, we have long experience of "catastrophes that strike the country" and we also have a certain specialisation in "staging" them.
The Spirit of Horsepower
The main aim of our considerations of various subjects -- in which it is indispensable to continually repeat the facts remembered from basic "theorems", even better if with the same words and phrases -- is the criticism of the frenzy over the "unforeseen" and deformed forms of very modern capitalism which are supposed to compel a reconsideration of the bases of the 'perspective' and thus of the marxist method itself.
The Filling and Bursting of Bourgeois Civilisation
The floods in the Po valley and the confused debate over their causes and over the responsibility of organisations and public bodies that did not know how to carry out protection work, with all the disgusting mutual accusation of "speculating" on misfortune, puts into question one of the most widespread false opinions shared by all the contenders: that contemporary capitalist society, with the corresponding development of science, technology and production, places the human species in the best possible position to struggle against the difficulties of the natural environment.
Doctrine of the body possessed by the devil - Amadeo Bordiga
Bordiga's critique of state-planned socialism from the radical position of the Italian communist left.
It is vital to be quite clear over the question of state capitalism in order to reset the compasses that have lost their bearings. (1)
The Democratic Principle
The use of certain terms in the exposition of the problems of communism very often engenders ambiguities because of the different meanings these terms may be given. Such is the case with the words democracy and democratic.
Towards the establishment of workers' councils in Italy - Amadeo Bordiga
Bordiga's contribution to communist theories of the role of the workers party in pushing forward workers councils as a method of class organisation.
We have now collected quite a lot of material concerned with proposals and initiatives for establishing Soviets in Italy, and we reserve to ourselves the right to expound the elements of the argument step by step. At this stage we wish to make a few preliminary observations of a general nature, to which we have already referred in our most recent issues.
