(November 1922)
From International Press Correspondence, Vol. 2 No. 111, 13 December 1922, pp. 907–912.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive
I will deal with the question raised by Comrade Radek yesterday as to the attitude of the Communist Party towards fascism.
Our comrade criticized the attitude of our Party on the question of Fascism, which is the dominant political question in Italy. He criticized our point of view – our alleged point of view – which is supposed to consist of a desire to have a small party and to limit the consideration of all questions solely to the aspect of Party organization and their immediate importance, without going any fart... (From: Marxists.org.) (Summary)
(November 1922)
Radio to Inprecorr.
From International Press Correspondence, Vol. 2 No. 102, 24 November 1922, pp. 822–823.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive
Moscow, November 16
After the sitting was opened, Bordiga (Italy) spoke of fascism. He pointed out that Fascism is a classical example of the capitalist offensive. Fascism was founded by the war interventionists. The economic crisis of the postwar period encouraged this trend of feeling in the bourgeoisie. Fascism first took up the offensive in the agrarian districts, where socialist communal authorities, the Socialist Party, and the trade union organizations, had locally almost realized the d... (From: Marxists.org.) Fourth Congress of the Communist International
Report on Fascism
November 16, 1922
Source: Published in Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922 (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/472-toward-the-united-front), pp. 403-423 Translation: Translation by John Riddell HTML Markup: David Walters for the Marxists Internet Archive, 2018 Copyright: John Riddell, 2017. Republished here with permission.
Dear comrades, I regret that unusual circumstances affecting communication between our delegation and our party prevent me from having access to all the source material on this question.[5]
There is a written report from Comrade Togliatti, but I do not have it here; in fact, I h... (From: Marxists.org.) Amadeo Bordiga. 1920
Seize Power or Seize the Factory?
Source: Il Soviet, 22 February 1920, Vol.III, No.7.
The working-class disturbances of the past few days in Liguria
have seen yet another example of a phenomenon that for some time now has been
repeated with some frequency, and that deserves to be examined as a symptom of
a new level of consciousness among the working masses.
Instead of abandoning their jobs, the workers have so to speak taken over
their plants and sought to operate them for their own benefit, or more
precisely without the top managers being present in the plant. Above all, this
indicates that the workers are fully aware that the strike is not always the
best weapon to use, especially under certain circu... (From: Marxists.org.) (7 October 1922)
From International Press Correspondence, Vol. 2 No. 90, 17 October 1922, pp. 684–686.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive
The article by Comrade Bordiga, which was printed in l’Ordine Nuovo of October 7th, represents not merely his own personal opinion. As this question will now occupy the attention of the Third International, we desire to make the standpoint contained therein known to wider circles. – The Editor
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The critical attitude which the Italian Communist Party exhibits towards the Socialist Party and its successive crises, follows from an objective theory and tactics which only foolish people could regard as constituting ... (From: Marxists.org.) (December 1956)
From Cosmonaut, January 2019.
Translated by Leon Thalheimer.
Translation of the chapters 111, 112 and 113 of Economic and Social Structure of the Russia of Today by Amadeo Bordiga.
French translation: Structure économique et sociale de la Russie d’aujourd’hui, 2° partie: Développement des rapports de production après la révolution bolchevique (1956–57).
Published in Italian in Il Programma Comunista, N° 25, December 1956).
Copied with thanks from Cosmonaut Blog, September 2019.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).
If you wish to reproduce this text, please contact Cosmonaut at cosmonaut... (From: Marxists.org.) November 11, 1922
Source: Published in Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922 (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/472-toward-the-united-front), pp. 178-185. Translation: Translation by John Riddell HTML Markup: David Walters for the Marxists Internet Archive, 2018 Copyright: John Riddell, 2017. Republished here with permission.
Comrade Zinoviev has recalled and confirmed certain principles established by the Third Congress and approved by the Italian party.
The first concerns interpreting the condition of capitalism. A crisis exists that is not transitory and that signifies the decline of capitalism itself, one that can be termed its final crisis.
The second point m... (From: Marxists.org.) November 30, 1922
Source: Published in Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922 (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/472-toward-the-united-front), pp. 935-937 Translation: Translation by John Riddell HTML Markup: David Walters for the Marxists Internet Archive, 2018 Copyright: John Riddell, 2017. Republished here with permission.
I have asked for the floor in order to speak on Comrade Eberlein’s report on reorganizing the Executive Committee of the International. In the commission, I said that this involved a reorganization not just of the Executive Committee but of the entire International. There are important questions at stake here, involving a de facto revision of ... (From: Marxists.org.) First Published: Il programma comunista, no. 5, 1953, Source: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3909/bordiga0.html. (no longer available) HTML Markup: Andy Blunden. (2003) Proofread: Einde O’Callaghan. (September 2019)
The main aim of our considerations of various subjects – which makes it indispensable to continually repeat the facts remembered from basic “theorems”, even better if it’s with the same words and phrases – is the criticism of the frenzy around the “unforeseen” and deformed forms of very modern capitalism which supposedly compel a reconsideration of the bases of the "perspective" and thus of the marxist method itself.
This false position can easily be related to the... (From: Marxists.org.) First Published: Il Soviet, 13 September 1919, Vol. II, No.38; Source: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3909/bordiga0.html; HTML Markup: Andy Blunden 2003.
In launching our communist program, 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 participation, which is soberly affirmed in the
program. Indeed, although the electionist maximalists proclaim that for them
electoral action is quite secondary, they are in fact so mesmerized by it as to
launch an avalanche of articles against the fe... (From: Marxists.org.) Source: web.infinito.it/utenti/c/communism/classici/bordigen.htm; Translation: in Communist Program, No.5, June 1979; HTML Markup: Andy Blunden 2003.
I
1. Communism is the doctrine of the social and historical
preconditions for the emancipation of the proletariat.
The elaboration of this doctrine began in the period of the
first proletarian movements against the effects of the bourgeois system of
production. It took shape in the Marxist critique of the capitalist economy,
the method of historical materialism, the theory of class struggle and the
conception of the development which will take place in the historical process
of the fall of the capitalist regime and the proletarian revolution.
2. It is on the basis of this doct... (From: Marxists.org.) Towards the Establishment of Workers' Councils in Italy
First Published: Il Soviet, Vol. III, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7; January 1, 11, February 1, 8, 22 1920; Source: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3909/bordiga0.html; HTML Markup: Andy Blunden 2003.
I
We have now collected quite a lot of material concerned with proposals and
initiatives for establishing Soviets in Italy, and we reserve to ourselves the
right to expound the elements of the argument step by step. At this stage we
wish to make a few preliminary observations of a general nature, to which we
have already referred in our most recent issues.
The system of proletarian representation that has been introduced for the
first time ever in Russia has a twofold ch... (From: Marxists.org.) First published: in Italian as “‘Vae victis’ [1] Germania” in Il Programma Comunista No. 11, June 11-24, 1960; Translated: from the Italian by AnythingForProximity; Source of the Italian text: International Library of the Communist Left.
It will soon be half a century since the woes that befell humanity
were spilled upon the Germans, the woes of this terrible period during
which “bourgeois civilization” has begun to recoil from what
was quite possibly its highest pitch of greatness.
At the outbreak of the imperialist war of 1914, the gigantic
deception to present the conflict as an ideological war was
founded on the denigration of Germany and the German people. It was not
capitalism that slid d... (From: Marxists.org.) (Lax and uncaring technology –
Parasitic and pillaging management)
(1956)
First Published: Il programma comunista, no. 17, 1956. Source: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/3909/bordiga0.html (no longer available). HTML Markup: Andy Blunden. (2003) Proofread: Einde O’Callaghan. (September 2019)
Andrea Doria
The safety of sea travelers seemed, with good reason, to have been assured for the future, both historically and scientifically, by the first application of mechanical motors to ships, and all the more so with the construction of metal hulls. After a century and a half of technical “improvement”, the safety of the passenger is now relatively greater when compared with the old wooden sailin... (From: Marxists.org.) 1. The so-called question of the party’s internal organization has always been a subject in the positions of traditional Marxists and of the present Communist Left, born as an opposition to the errors of the Moscow International. Naturally, such a topic is not to be isolated in a watertight compartment, but is instead inseparable from the general framework of our positions.
2. What is part of the doctrine, of the party’s general theory, can be found in the classical texts; it is also exhaustively summarized in more recent works, in Italian texts such as the Rome and Lyon theses, and in many others with which the Left made known its prediction of the Third International’s ruin; the phenomena the latter demonstrated were ... (From: Marxists.org.)