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Force, Violence and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle
Force, Violence, and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle deals with the questions of the use of force in social relationships and the characteristics of the revolutionary dictatorship according to left communist interpretation.
[b]I. Actual and Potential Violence[/b]
In the history of social aggregates we recognise the use of material force and violence in an overt form whenever we observe conflicts and clashes among individuals and among groups which result, through many different forms, in the material injury and destruction of physical individuals.
Theses of the Abstentionist Communist Faction of the Italian Socialist Party (May 1920)
Key text of Bordiga's left communist current.
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1. Communism is the doctrine of the social and historical preconditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.
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.
Yesterday
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.
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)
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.
Considerations on the party's organic activity when the general situation is historically unfavourable
Bordiga's 1965 essay on the activity of communist militants when class struggle is at a low-ebb.
1. The so-called question of the party's internal organisation has always been a subject in the positions of traditional Marxists and of the present Communist Left, born as an opposition to the errors of the Moscow International. Naturally, such a topic is not to be isolated in a watertight compartment, but is instead inseparable from the general framework of our positions.
Characteristic theses of the party
Amadeo Bordiga's essay on the role of the communist party in which he attacks political opportunism of Leninist-inspired communist parties.
(Produced at a Party meeting held in Florence, 8-9 December, 1951)
[b]I. THEORY [/b]
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