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Works by deceased theorists such as Bordiga, Lenin, Pannekoek and others.

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Space versus Cement – Il Programa Comunista

Vil 11 months ago
Space versus Cement – Il Programa Comunista

We’re in a hurry. Is that okay? The earth, on the crust of which we live, is shaped like a ball or a sphere. Let us digress for a moment: this concept, which for thousands of years has been extremely difficult for even the most brilliant scientists to understand, is […]

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The transformation of work according to revolutionaries of the late 19th Century – ICC

gulagwithahumanface 11 months ago
The transformation of work according to revolutionaries of the late 19th Century – ICC

In the previous article in this series, we showed how the authentic socialists of the end of the 19th century had envisaged the way that a future communist society would tackle some of mankind’s most pressing social problems: the relationship between man and woman, and between humankind and the nature […]

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The Guignol in History – Amadeo Bordiga

Vil 11 months ago
The Guignol in History – Amadeo Bordiga

The cult of the Leader, the cult of personality, not a divine but a human personality, is an even worse social narcotic that we shall define as the cocaine of the proletariat.

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Immutable Tablets of the Communist Theory of The Party, Amadeo Bordiga

Vil 1 year ago
Immutable Tablets of the Communist Theory of The Party, Amadeo Bordiga

Fundamental Marxist text At the concluding session of the La Spezia meeting1 and, at greater length, in the corresponding report (for which see issues 15, 16, 17, and 18 of Il Programma Comunista from 1959), a reiteration of essential topics took place on the occasion of our examination of the “Economic and Philosophic […]

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Ten Theses on Marxism Today – Karl Korsch

ilya 1 year ago
Ten Theses on Marxism Today – Karl Korsch

This short essay written by karl korsch in 1950 and commonly known as the “Zürich theses” marks an important point within the development of the post-war communist milieu by virtue of its historic role as a reconfiguration of the Marxist dialectic and an assessment of weak practical and theoretical points […]

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Capitalism and communism – Gilles Dauvé

John 1 year ago
Capitalism and communism – Gilles Dauvé

Communism is not a programme one puts into practice or makes others put into practice, but a social movement. Apart from perhaps a clearer understanding, those who develop and defend theoretical communism are moved by the same practical personal need for communism as those who are not especially concerned by […]

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The Dual Power, Vladimir Lenin

ADX 1 year ago
The Dual Power, Vladimir Lenin

The basic question of every revolution is that of state power. Unless this question is understood, there can be no intelligent participation in the revolution, not to speak of guidance of the revolution. The highly remarkable feature of our revolution is that it has brought about a dual power. This […]

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On the Union Question, Amadeo Boridga and Onorato Damen

ADX 1 year ago
On the Union Question, Amadeo Boridga and Onorato Damen

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 […]

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The Destruction of Nature, Anton Pannekoek

ADX 1 year ago
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 […]

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Rosa Luxemburg’s: The Russian Revolution, Onorato Damen

ADX 1 year ago
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 […]

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