Dec 27, 2017 · Bordiga said that Troiani had provided him with legal aid in a case unrelated to politics, and that he had understood at the time that Troiani "was an unofficial informer of the political police, well-connected around Bocchini and Senise" (compresi che si trattava di un informatore ufficioso della polizia politica ben introdotto presso il ...

Dec 26, 2010 · At the end of 1926, Bordiga received a letter of Karl Korsch, former Leftist leader of the KPD, proposing to build an opposition outside the Comintern. Bordiga answered that it was necessary to fight as fraction inside the Communist parties. There was not thus convergence between the German Communist Opposition, known as "ultra-left" and Bordiga.

Bordiga for beginners Bordiga (1889-1970) was a leading figure in what became known as the Italian Communist Left. Active in revolutionary opposition to the First World War, Bordiga went on to become the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI) upon its foundation in …

Introduction to the Amadeo Bordiga archive on the Libertarian Communist Library. Bordiga (1889-1970) was an influential member of the Italian communist movement and leader of the Absentionist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party and for a time leader of the Italian Communist Party, before resigning in favour of Gramsci, under pressure from Lenin.

Correspondence Between Bordiga and Trotsky (1926) Letter from Amadeo Bordiga to Karl Korsch (1926)

Sep 3, 2016 · The following text is the written account of a party general meeting held in 1957, it was published in the same year in 'Il programma comunista' no.13, 14 and 15. Drafted as a rebuttal to all enemies of revolution, Bordiga resolutely-affirms a classist, internationalist Marxism, against the "deniers" (ardent anti-communists), "falsifiers" (opportunists) and "modernizers" …

Aug 5, 2018 · In this 1957 text drafted for the Partito Comunista Internazionale, Amadeo Bordiga, with his usual acerbic wit, restates some of the “invariant” principles of Marxism, denounces the idea that communism means collective or individual “property” or “ownership”—terms he subjects to historical analysis as transitory juridical forms—argues in favor of social usufruct as the …

Sep 19, 2014 · In this article first published in Prometeo in 1947, Amadeo Bordiga examines the history of the political forms of bourgeois rule and posits that it has passed through two stages (the early “heroic” period followed by the “golden age” of bourgeois democracy) and is now entering its third stage, characterized by the eclipse of “private initiative” and the rise of …

Jun 4, 2016 · Article examining Bordiga's idea that after the international class war is won, the organic-centralist party of the proletariat would, in a distant time, emerge as the 'brain' of the future, classless, stateless, communist society - the 'social brain', whose role would be to co-ordinate society's activities in accordance with the invariant communist programme.

Sep 3, 2014 · Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks:1 Counter-theses and Theses – Amadeo Bordiga. From the Series, “On the Thread of Time” Historical Counter-theses and Theses2. Counter-thesis I. Towards the end of the 19th century, society was divided into two opposed classes: the bourgeoisie, who owned the means of production, and the proletarian wage workers ...