Songs about Bordiga

Submitted by Fozzie on October 11, 2024

I wanna tell you about a theorist of proletarian revolution
Who intransigently opposed substitutionism
He was expelled from the Communist International in 1927
Coz he wasn’t afraid to criticise Lenin
And his name is A-M-A-D-E-E-E
A-M-A-D-E-O
Bordiga

https://stewarthome666.bandcamp.com/track/bordiga

I assumed Stewart Home's latest smash hit "Bordiga" might be the only song about everyone's favourite Italian left communist - but I was wrong!

A more cynical take can be found on YouTube by "/leftypol/ choir" - Bordiga (leftcom anthem):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJwCgM5kgk&t=100s

READ BORDIGA AND DO NOTHING

Read Bordiga, Bordiga, Read Bordiga….

Leftcoms, all unite
Let the people fight,
Be a lazy shit, do sweet fuck all

Activism is pointless,
Your efforts are all fruitless,
I'll just wait for capitalism to fall,
till then I shall read
Bordiga

There is also a song called Amadeo Bordiga by Nick Bird on Spotify but this is sadly flagged on the app as unavailable.

Maybe there are other songs I have missed?

adri

1 day 1 hour ago

Submitted by adri on October 15, 2024

Bordiga's better in writing:

Bordiga wrote: Either we read history as Marxists, or we relapse into scholastic masturbations. . . .

Bordiga wrote: Not a particularly clever trick: One is the material interest that the exploited, who have to overthrow the privatist society, have in common[. T]he other is the personal interest, whose motivation is the incentive to fuck over the class brothers.

Bordiga wrote: He would be joined by the famous anarchist scholar Elisée Reclus, and by the even more famous (total idiot) Gustave Hervé. . . .

Bordiga wrote: These superstitions about “human nature” were ridiculed by Marx a long time ago when he wrote in a short, pithy sentence: Monsieur Proudhon ignores that all history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. Under this massive tombstone can be laid to rest countless throngs of past, present and future anti-Marxist idiots.

I'm curious if the Italian versions are just as vulgar (not that it bothers me) or if the translators took some liberties.

More importantly on the topic of music, did you know that the Beach Boys were doing shoegaze in 1969?!

"All I Wanna Do"