Debord’s 1967 work of analysis of culture under capitalism, and criticism of previous Marxists – positing that they functioned as part of the same spectacle of capitalism.
Month: August 2019
The Mass Strike, Rosa Luxemburg
A 1906 work in which Luxemburg argues for the importance of the mass strike in overthrowing capitalism.
Against ‘Great Man History’, John
An essay outlining the Marxist view of history and counter-posing it with Stalinist and Trotskyist views.
The Coming World Crisis, John
An essay outlining the reasons for capitalist collapse within this century.
Against Grover Furr, Against Stalinism, John
A short piece written against the Stalinist historian Grover Furr.
Reflections and Conclusions on Haft Tapeh, Vil
Our alternative is a Soviet, a collective one. We are not person-centred and we do not want individualism. Individualists, nationalists, racists and reactionaries do not associate yourselves with us. Our alternative is a worker’s soviet; collectively we will decide for ourselves, we will issue demands from the below. Enough is […]
In Janitzio Death is not Scary, Bordiga
In Mexico, in a lake called Patzcuaro, there is a little island called Janitzio. 2350 meters above sea level a stunning landscape opens up before visitors: tranquil waters, mountains, torturous slopes, a sky so close you can almost touch it with a finger. Descendants of a proud race, the Tarascan […]
The Democratic Principle, Bordiga
The use of certain terms in the exposition of the problems of communism very often engenders ambiguities because of the different meanings these terms may be given. Such is the case with the words democracy and democratic. In its statements of principle, Marxist communism presents itself as a critique and a negation of […]
Letters to the IIIrd International, Bordiga
I Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist PartyCentral CommitteeBorgo San Antonio Abate 221Naples To the Moscow Committee of the IIIrd International. Our fraction was formed after the Bologna Congress of the Italian Socialist Party (6-10 October 1919), but it bad issued its propaganda previously through the Naples newspaper Il Soviet, […]
The System of Communist Representation, Bordiga
In launching our communist programme, which contained the outlines of a response to many vital problems concerning the revolutionary movement of the proletariat, we expected to ace a broad discussion develop on all its aspects. Instead there has been and still is only furious discussion over the incompatibility of electoral […]