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

Parti ve Sınıf – Amadeo Bordiga

Bordigism

Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today - Loren Goldner

Goldner assesses Bordiga's analysis of the nature of the 'socialist' countries, and the centrality…

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 System of Communist Representation

Bordiga's critique of the wing of the Italian socialist movement which advocated participation in elections.

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.

Introduction to the Bordiga archive

Murder of the Dead - Amadeo Bordiga

Bordiga explains Marx's economics and argues that state monopoly over the economy (i.e. nationalisation) is no more socialist than private monopoly.

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.

The Piave river.

The Legend of the Piave - Amadeo Bordiga

Bordiga's analysis of a fatal environmental catastrophe in Italy, which could easily been avoided, had importance been placed on safety rather…

Detail of the first membership card of Partito Comunista d’Italia,1921.

Fundamental Theses of the Party - Amadeo Bordiga

At the Lyons Congress of the Communist Party of Italy in 1926, shortly before the Communist International adopted the theory of "socialism in one…