An extract from the book ‘Bordiga: Beyond the Myth’, published by the CWO/ICT, available in multiple languages, on the question of working with unions. All italics in this article are the commentaries from the ICT. What follows are two further extracts from the book by Onorato Damen “Bordiga: Beyond the […]
Capitalism
Works laying out the Left’s view of contemporary capitalism.
The Destruction of Nature, Anton Pannekoek
This early article by the renown socialist scholar, as well as respected astronomer, Anton Pannekoek, goes a long way to dispel the idea that socialists have held a very productivist view about mankind’s relationship with the environment. It deserves a wide circulation within the ecology movement. There are numerous complaints […]
Rosa Luxemburg’s: The Russian Revolution, Onorato Damen
To mark the anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth 147 years ago (5 March) we offer this translation of Onorato Damen’s introduction to the Italian translation to her famous work on the Russian Revolution. Note: this was translated by Internationalist Communist Tendency (ICT). An introduction by Onorato Damen It is fashionable […]
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 […]
The Proletarian Woman (1914) by Rosa Luxemburg
“Proletarian Women’s Day inaugurates the “Week of Social Democracy.” The party of the disinherited places its female columns in the front lines by sending them into the heat of battle for eight days, in order to spread the seeds of socialism onto new fields. And the call for the political […]
User’s Guide to Détournement, Guy Debord
Every reasonably aware person of our time is aware of the obvious fact that art can no longer be justified as a superior activity, or even as a compensatory activity to which one might honorably devote oneself. The reason for this deterioration is clearly the emergence of productive forces that necessitate other production […]