Bordiga Archive

For a discussion of Bordiga's communism see the introduction to the Antagonism Press pamphlet Bordiga versus Pannekoek published October 2001. This supercedes the old introduction to this archive.

See also the introduction to Antagonism Press book Murdering the Dead, writings of Amadeo Bordiga on Capitalism and Other Disasters published October 2001

Writings on Boridga and the Italian Left

• Note on Pannekoek and Bordiga in The Eclipse and Re-Emergence of the Communist Movement by Gilles Dauvé and François Martin
• The Italian Left and Bordiga from le roman de nos origines by La Banquise
• Community and Communism in Russia by Jacques Camatte
• Communism is the Material Human Community - Amadeo Bordiga Today by Loren Goldner.
• The chapter entitled "Bordigism", by Adam Buick, in the book "Non-Market Socialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" is a useful overview.
• The Third Generation: The Young Socialists in Italy, 1907-1915 by Earlene Craver discusses the formation and struggles of the left of the PSI before WWI.
• Philippe Bourrinet's book The Italian Communist Left concentrates especially on the politics of the emigrant groups during the fascist period.
• There is also interesting material in a review of an Italian book: Arturo PEREGALLI and Sandro SAGGIORO, Amadeo Bordiga. – La sconfitta e gli anni oscuri (1926-1945).

Bordiga Texts

Texts from series The Thread of Time

Filling and Bursting of Bourgeois Civilization
Murder of the Dead
Weird and Wonderful Tales of Modern Social Decadence
The Legend of the Piave
Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil
The Spirit of Horse-Power
Marxism of the Stammerers
Class Struggle and "Bosses' Offensives"

The System of Communist Representation
Is this the time to from "Soviets"?
Two letters to the IIIrd International
Towards the establishment of workers' councils in Italy
Seize Power or Seize the Factory?

The Democratic Principle, written in 1922, and appeared in the No.7 of Communist Program (organ of the International Communist Party) in September 1981.

Party and Class Rassegna Comunista no 2, April 15, 1921

Proletarian Dictatorship and Class Party Battaglia Comunista nos 3, 4 and 5. 1951.

Bordiga at the 6th Enlarged Executive Meeting of the Communist International by the IBRP.

Texts in Russian

Партия и класс (Party and Class, 1921)

СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ МОЛОДЁЖЬ И ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ (Gioventu' socialista,1912)

Этот хрупкий ... (Questa friabile ..., 1966)

Relevant Links

For Communism - The John Gray website has a Bordiga section as well as many texts about, or influenced by the Italian left
n+1 Italian based Left Communists, with texts in several languages.
Sinistra.net - Online archives of the Communist Left. Now have a Bordiga page
International Communist Party - publishes "Communist Left".
International Communist Party - il programm communista, publishes "Internationalist Papers"
Robin Goodfellow - ex-members of Communisme ou Civilisation.
Amadeo Bordiga - In memoria di un grande rivoluzionario
Amadeo Bordiga - Italian site.
che fare - Organizzazione Comunista Internazionalista. Partly influenced by Trotskyism.
International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party - International organisation of Left Communist groupings, including Battaglia Communista
International Communist Current - Developed partly out of the emigration of Left Communists from Italy during the 1920's and 1930's. Influenced by the German Left.
Internationalist Perspective - group formally known as the External Fraction of the ICC
Internationalist Communist Group - Split from the ICC in the 1980's
Infantile Disorder - Texts by Philippe Bourrinet (ex-ICC) on the communist lefts, and other useful stuff.

Links to left communist groups

Bordiga versus Pannekoek

Antagonism