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 […]
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Left-Communist, Internationalist, and Affiliate of the International Communist Current
Letter from Amadeo Bordiga to Karl Korsch
Dear Comrade Korsch, The problems we face today are so important that we should really be discussing them face to face in detail. This unfortunately is not a possibility at the moment. Also I won’t be covering all the points in your platform in this letter, some of which could […]
Why Russia Isn’t Socialist, PCInt
I. Russian Capitalism Conspicuous social divisions, wage differentials, privileges according to type of work, and a division of labour which dooms “manual workers” to the factory inferno and which reserves for intellectuals the monopoly of comfort, can these really be said to be compatible with Socialism as the CP men […]
The 1950s and 60s: Damen, Bordiga, and the Passion for Communism, ICC
Prior to our excursion into the attempts of Spanish anarchism to establish “libertarian communism” during the war in Spain of 1936-39, we had published the contribution of the Gauche Communiste de France on the state in the period of transition1, a text based on the theoretical advances of the Italian […]
Nature and Function of the Proletarian Party, GCF
ICC Introduction The document we are publishing below first appeared in 1947 in the pages of Internationalisme, the press of the small group “Gauche Communiste de France” (Communist Left of France), to which (amongst others) the ICC has traced its origins since its foundation in 1975. It was reprinted at the […]
The Task of the Hour: Formation of the Party or Formation of Cadres, GCF
ICC Preface This article first appeared in Internationalisme no. 12 in August 1946. Although it is a product of the immediate post-Second World War period, it is still remarkably relevant today, 36 years later. It deals with the question of when the formation of the party is both necessary and possible. For those who refuse […]
Theses on the Nature of the State and the Proletarian Revolution, GCF
1. The state appears in history as the expression of antagonistic interests which divide human society; it is the product and result of antagonistic economic relations. Although the state has played an active role in history, it is above all directly determined by the process of economic development. It appears […]
The Russian Experience, GCF
There’s no doubt any more: the first experience of the proletarian revolution, both in its positive acquisitions, and even more in the negative lessons that can be drawn from it, is today at the base of the whole modern workers’ movement. As long as the balance sheet of this experience […]
Bordiga and the Passion for Communism, Camatte
Passion is the essential force of man energetically bent on its object. Karl marx Men are the products of their time: some are capable of representing it, because the invariance of their thought overcomes the ideology of the ruling class or expresses the impetuous assault of the oppressed class; others […]
The National Question, The Mexican Communist Left
The Party of the Mexican Revolution ‘recognizes the class struggle’ to combat the proletarian revolution One of the most characteristic features of political life today, is the fact that the bourgeoisie, in order to derail the attack of the starving and desperate masses, hypocritically and demagogically presents itself as the opposite […]