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

Is this the time to form "soviets"?

Amadeo Bordiga writes on the German and Russian revolutions for an Italian audience, Il Soviet, 21 September 1919.

Seize power or seize the factory? - Amadeo Bordiga

Amadeo Bordiga's commentary on the Italian factory occupation movement in 1920 as well as his view for how the movement should move forward. We do not agree with it but reproduce it for reference.

Proletarian dictatorship and class party

Bordiga's text on the role of the workers' party in the class struggle and enforcement of proletarian power.

Party and class - Amadeo Bordiga

Amadeo Bordiga's thesis on the relationship of communist militants to the rest of the working class.

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.

The Spirit of Horsepower

The Filling and Bursting of Bourgeois Civilisation

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.

Demonstration in Rome during the Biennio Rosso.

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…

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.

The System of Communist Representation

Party and Class Action