The science and passion of communism : : selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965) / / Amadeo Bordiga ; edited by Pietro Basso ; translated by Giacomo Donis, Patrick Camiller.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 209
• VerfasserIn: Bordiga, Amadeo,
• TeilnehmendeR: Basso, Pietro, 1945-; Donis, Giacomo,; Camiller, Patrick,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 209.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The Science and Passion of Communism presents the battles of the brilliant Italian communist Amadeo Bordiga in the revolutionary cycle of the post-WWI period, through his writings against reformism and war, for Soviet power and internationalism, and then against fascism, on one side, Stalinism and t...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Yesterday’s Battles and Today’s World
• Pietro Basso
• PART I: THE ITALIAN LEFT IN THE GREAT REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE (1912–26)
• 1 Against the War
• Against the War as Long as It Lasts
• From the Old to the New Anti-militarism
• We Take Our Stand
• The ‘Fait Accompli’
• Nothing to Correct
• 2 On Elections
• Against Abstentionism
• The Electionist Illusion
• The Electoral Trap
• Revolutionary Preparation or Electoral Preparation
• 3 On Soviets
• The System of Communist Representation
• Is This the Time to Form ‘Soviets’?
• Take the Factories or Take Power?
• 4 On Strategy and Tactics
• The May 1920 Theses – Abstentionist Communist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party
• The Tactics of the Communist International – Fourth Congress (1922)
• Theses on the Tactics of the Communist Party of Italy (Rome Theses – 1922)
• 5 On Fascism, Against Fascism
• Report to the Fourth Congress of the C.I. (1922)
• Report to the Fifth Congress of the C.I. (1924)
• 6 The Lyons Theses
• Draft Theses for the Third Congress of the Communist Party of Italy (Lyons, 1926)
• 7 Against Stalin and ‘Socialism in One Country’
• The Trotsky Question
• Bordiga at the Sixth Enlarged ECCI (February 1926)
• Letter to Karl Korsch
• PART II: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE REBIRTH OF REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISM (1945–65)
• Section I: Russia and Revolution in Marxist Theory
• 1 Lessons of Counter-revolutions
• 2 Forty Years of Organically Analysing Russian Events within the Dramatic Context of the Social and Historical Course of the World
• Section II: The Critique of Triumphant Capitalism
• 1 Property and Financial Capital
• 2 Welfare Economics
• 3 The Law of Hunger
• 4 Murder of the Dead
• 5 Inflation of the State
• 6 The United States of America (1947–57)
• America
• America Again!
• Attack on Europe
• The USA’s European Policy
• Korea and the World
• Democratic ‘Points’ and Imperial Programmes
• ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Imperialism
• You cannot stop, only the proletarian revolution can stop you, destroying your power
• Appendix: With the Academic Seal of Approval the American Economy becomes ‘People’s Capitalism’
• Section III: On the ‘Gigantic Movement of Emancipation’ of the Coloured Peoples
• 1 The Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory (1953)
• 2 East
• 3 The Multiple Revolutions
• 4 ‘Racial’ Pressure of the Peasantry, Class Pressure of the Coloured Peoples
• Appendix: ‘Negro’ Rage Shook the Rotten Pillars of Bourgeois and Democratic ‘Civilisation’ (1965)
• Section IV: On the Revolutionary Prospects of Communism
• 1 The Revolutionary Programme of Communist Society
• 2 Who’s Afraid of Automation?
• 3 The Immediate Revolutionary Programme in the Capitalist West
• Section V: On the Party
• 1 Considerations on the Party’s Organic Activity When the General Situation is Historically Unfavourable (1965)
• Annotated Bibliography of Bordiga’s Writings
• Annotated Bibliography on Bordiga in Italian
• References
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