Marxism

This short text is an attempt to synthetize the general features of today's struggles, without going into specific details. Although it cannot be applied to every moment of struggle, this kind of outline is very useful as a base for the international rules which orientate the actions of the proletariat's vanguard minorities.

The Capitalist Catastrophe - ICG

We are reproducing here an article that was first published 10 years ago, in November 1983, in the first issue of Communism, our central review in English.

"The point is not to free labour, but to abolish it." - Karl Marx -

A Foot in the Birthday Cake: Marx in spite of and against everybody

We are publishing here a first attempt to summarize our fundamental positions. We want to insist on the danger of using this text as if it were a new bible, as a formal and eternal reference. We consider this text as a photograph taken at a certain level of experience of our group, knowing that we'll produce other materials, other texts which will be at quite different levels of abstraction and concretisation.

Originally published as ‘Histoire normative et essence communiste du prolétariat’, Théorie Communiste no.16, 2000. A critique of Dauvé’s When Insurrections Die, TC attack Dauvé’s “normative” perspective, in which actual revolutions are counterposed to what they could/should have been – to a never-completely-spelled-out formula of a genuine communist revolution. In contrast, TC claim to give a robust account of the…

Aufheben present Theorie Communiste's reply and critique of their series of articles on decadence.

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

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.