Today in Labor History June 13, 1889: Amadeo Bordiga was born (d1970). Proponent of Council Communism (anti-authoritarian Left Communism) and the Italian Communist Left, as well as a founder of the Italian Communist Party. He was a major influence on the 20th century Ultra Left. He called Stalin "the gravedigger of the revolution." Bordiga was imprisoned twice by Mussolini. Lenin criticized him in his screed, "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920). Revolutionary and author, Victor Serge, described Bordiga as "exuberant and energetic… a man quivering under his encumbrance of ideas, experiences and dark forecasts."

#workingclass #LaborHistory #socialism #communism #bordiga #italy #stalin #Lenin #mussolini #fascism #prison #Revolution

"In this episode, join your hosts Sam Thomas (resident Italophile), J.E. Morain, and James Crane for a discussion taking the 1951 polemic, “Murder of the Dead,” as a point of departure for deeper dive into Amadeo Bordiga’s bellicose and beautiful run of essays in eco-communism throughout the 50s and 60s. Topics of discussion include: Bordiga’s critique of a version of the ‘state capitalism’ thesis, the conceptual matrix of living/dead labor and variable/constant capital, the theoretical and stylistic function of ‘invariance’ in Bordiga's writings, coal mine collapses, the flooding of symbols of national pride, and scientific-scatological reflections on the ‘how’s of abolishing the antithesis of town and country. We end with a few remarks on the conquest of the fear of death and the “natural condition of the prosperity of the species” in Bordiga's 1961 “In Janitzio Death is not Scary.”

Other Bordiga essays discussed in the episode:

“The Filling and Bursting of Bourgeois Civilisation” (1951)

“The Human Species and the Earth’s Crust” (1952)

“The Spirit of Horsepower” (1953)

“Weird and Wonderful Tales of Modern Social Decadence” (1956)

“The Legend of the Piave” (1963)"

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#Marxism #StateCapitalism #Bordiga #Italy #ItalianMarxism

The first #Bordiga #ebook!
perhaps the other left communists (AKA my fellow lunatics) on this site would delight if you would:

Hear Bordiga say "Isn't it true, Ex-Marxist!"

and also stuff about the atrocity of a phrase "socialist commodity production"

or better yet why that's ridiculous

in his Dialogue with Stalin!!
https://solar-communism.neocities.org/library/books/2025-04-03-Amadeo-Bordiga-Dialogue-with-Stalin

#epub #communism #socialism #Stalin #capitalism

I'm not a bordigist, but this quote is fire.

#marxism #communism #bordiga

Biennio Rosso, la crise révolutionnaire de 1919-1920 en Italie
(chapitre 6 : 1919-1920)
(chapitre 5 : 1920)
(chapitre 4 : 1920)
(chapitre 4 : 1917-1919)
(chapitre 3 : 1905-1914)
(chapitre 2 : 1850-1905)
(chapitre 1 : 1842-1850)

1915 : l’entrée dans la Pr
https://groupemarxiste.info/2025/01/26/biennio-rosso-la-crise-revolutionnaire-de-1919-1920-en-italie/
#1919 #1920 #BennioRosso #Bordiga #Buozzi #CGdL #DAragona #Gramsci #grve #Italie #Milan #occupation #PSI #Serrati #Turin #USI

Today in Labor History June 13, 1889: Amadeo Bordiga was born (d1970). Proponent of Council Communism and the Italian Communist Left, as well as a founder of the Italian Communist Party. He was a major influence on the 20th century Ultra Left. He called Stalin "the gravedigger of the revolution." Bordiga was imprisoned twice by Mussolini. Lenin criticized him in his screed, "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920).

#workingclass #LaborHistory #socialism #communism #bordiga #italy #stalin #Lenin #mussolini #fascism #prison #Revolution

Today in Labor History June 13, 1889: Amadeo Bordiga was born (d1970). Proponent of Council Communism and the Italian Communist Left, as well as a founder of the Italian Communist Party. He was a major influence on the 20th century Ultra Left. He called Stalin "the gravedigger of the revolution." Bordiga was imprisoned twice by Mussolini. Lenin criticized him in his screed, "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920).

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #socialism #communism #bordiga #italy #stalin #Lenin #mussolini #fascism #prison #Revolution

The only problem with the January 6th insurrection was that it was an interclassist horde rallying to defend its particularly abhorrent vision of the capitalist state.

But let's be clear. Revolutionaries do not defend the state, its personnel, or its democratic processes:

"The communist party unleashes and wins the civil war, it occupies the key positions in a military and social sense, it multiplies its means of propaganda and agitation a thousand-fold through seizing buildings and public establishments. And without losing time and without procedural whims, it establishes the 'armed bodies of workers' of which Lenin spoke, the red guard, the revolutionary police. At the meetings of the Soviets, it wins over a majority to the slogan: 'All power to the Soviets!'. Is this majority a merely legal, or a coldly and plainly numerical fact? Not at all! Should anyone -- be he a spy or a well-intentioned but misled worker -- vote for the Soviet to renounce or compromise the power conquered thanks to the blood of the proletarian fighters, he will be kicked out by his comrades' rifle butts. And no one will waste time with counting him in the 'legal minority', that criminal hypocrisy which the revolution can do without and which the counterrevolution can only feed upon." - Bordiga, Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party

#bordiga #communistleft #marxism #communism #ultraleft #January6