In this 1953 article from the “Thread of Time” series, Amadeo Bordiga addresses the role of the great man or “man of destiny” in history, whose modern representatives he calls “Guignols” (grotesque puppets)—devoid of individuality, vacuous, two-dimensional receptacles for the cult of personality—from Napoleon to Eisenhower, and situates this phenomenon […]
Year: 2019
The Factory, ADX
The beginning of the chapter of Capital 15: The Development of Machinery saw for Marx that not the factory is a system organised from the nucleus of machinery but also the basis of adding a second prerequisite for women and children in the labour process, managing the number of individuals […]
Communication and Transport, ADX
Communication, in particular trains, cars, vans etc. are viewed as a means of transportation that transforms the physical conditions of exchange, proclaimed to be the abolishment of space in relation to time, according to Marx becoming a historical and material necessity for capital, as Grundrisse would state “Capital by its […]
Deep Ecology and Amadeo Bordiga, ADX
As civilisation becomes an unsustainable force in its inventible collapse from the face of the Earth, and as the outcome of this factor is the enacting of a post-civilised culture, one must look at the social stratosphere; specifically the buildings surround the capital producing hubs as an emergence from the […]
Workerism, ADX
Workerism is a term that refers to the supporting of industrial labourers over other modes of labourers. The over-rewarding of labourers who create the capital, economy, nation and material over other labourers can be an element of workerism. In its social context, it’s a sexist ideology by fetishizing the muscly […]
The “Elite” and the Ruling Class, Vil
Who are the elite? The elite has no actual body, it is a myth which is constructed constantly in order to justify the existence of the present state of things. The meaning of ‘the elite’ differs from mouthpiece to mouthpiece, depending on the general intent. For the new emerging social-democrats […]
Communist Organisation and Discipline, Amadeo Bordiga
Article by Amadeo Bordiga from Prometeo no. 5, May 15th 1924, on the structure and functioning of communist parties, and the International. A Premise to the Question The important discussion presently going on within the Russian Communist party throws into relief problems concerning the internal life of revolutionary parties. They […]
Fundamentals of Revolutionary Communism, Amadeo Bordiga
Introduction We need to begin, first of all, by explaining that the aim of our present exposition is not to systematically examine every economic, historical and political aspect of the communist scheme and its programme, nor to provide an exhaustive treatment of what we might call the ‘connective tissue’ which […]
On The Question of Trotsky, Bordiga
1925 article by Amadeo Bordiga in solidarity with Trotsky who, at that time, was under attack from the Russian party leadership. The discussion, which was recently concluded with the measures adopted by the EC and the Control Commission of the Communist Party of Russia against Comrade Trotsky1, was based exclusively […]
Last Interview of Amadeo Bordiga
In November of 1917, you took part, in Florence, in a secret conference of the ‘intransigent revolutionary’ current of the Socialist Party. On that occasion, you exhorted socialists to take advantage of the military crisis and take up arms to deal a decisive blow to the bourgeoisie. What was the […]