Amadeo Bordiga

Content by or about Amadeo Bordiga (13 June 1889 – 25 July 1970), an Italian Marxist theorist, revolutionary socialist, founder of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI), member of the Communist International (Comintern) and later a leading figure of the International Communist Party. Bordiga is viewed as one of the most notable representatives of Left communism in Europe.

The youthful Bordiga

The youthful Bordiga

Dialogue with Bordiga – Jacques Camatte

In this 1988 essay, Jacques Camatte reassesses the continuing relevance of Bordiga’s emphasis on the need for a “radical break” (scisma) with…

Beyond the Party: The evolution of the concept of “the Party” since Marx – Junius Collective (Pour une Intervention Communiste)

An essay by Pour une Intervention Communiste on the origins and development of the…

Interview: the situation of left communism today

Loren Goldner's interview with the Korean Socialist Workers' Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007.

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Tezy Frakcji Komunistów-Abstencjonistów Włoskiej Partii Socjalistycznej

Tezy te zostały opracowane w 1920 przez Amadeo Bordigę, który reprezentował frakcję Komunistów…

On the union question - Amadeo Bordiga and Onorato Damen

An extract from the book 'Bordiga: Beyond the Myth', published by the CWO/ICT, available in multiple…

The spectral figure of Amadeo Bordiga: a case study in the decline of Marxism in the West - John Chiaradia

John Chiaradia's 1972 dissertation on the left communist Amadeo Bordiga, specifically his political activities between 1912 and 1926, when he played a major role in the Italian Socialist party and later in the Italian Communist party, from which he and thousands of other anti-Stalinist communists were later expelled.

Black anger shakes the rotten pillars of bourgeois and democratic "civilization" - Bruno Maffi (1965)

Originally published anonymously (the norm within the Bordigist tradition) in 'Il…

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Bordiga: Early political views

Three part series on the pre-1917 political views of this Italian thinker who later became the first leader of the Italian Communist Party and…

The Democratic Principle - Amadeo Bordiga

First Published in 'Rassegena Communista', February 1922.

Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Maximilien Rubel, John Crump (editors)

In the nineteenth century, socialists as different as Marx and Kropotkin were agreed that socialism means a marketless, moneyless, wageless, classless, stateless world society. Subsequently this vision of non-market socialism has been developed by currents such as the anarcho-communists, impossibilists, council communists, Bordigists and Situationists. By tracing this development, this book challenges the…

Newspaper fragment of a portrait of Amadeo Bordiga

Communisme is de materiële menselijke gemeenschap: Amadeo Bordiga in onze tijd - Loren Goldner

Loren Goldner's tekst uit 1991 over het werk van de Italiaanse Marxist Amadeo…

The Bordigist Current (1912-1952): Italy, France, Belgium, USA - Philippe Bourrinet

Updated, substantially-expanded, 2013 Philippe Bourrinet text on the history of the Italian…