The science and passion of communism : selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)

Author(s)

• Bordiga, Amadeo
• Basso, Pietro
• Donis, Giacomo
• Camiller, Patrick

Bibliographic Information

The science and passion of communism : selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)

by Amadeo Bordiga ; edited by Pietro Basso ; translated by Giacomo Donis, Patrick Camiller

（Historical materialism book series, v. 209）

Brill, c2020

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [500]-506) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Amadeo Bordiga was one of the greatest figures of the Third Communist International. The Science and Passion of Communism presents his Soviet and internationalist battles in the revolutionary post-WWI period until that against Stalinism, and those in the post-WWII period against the triumphant U.S. capitalism and for an original, updated re-presentation of Marxist critique of political economy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Yesterday's Battles and Today's World Part 1 The Italian Left in the Great Revolutionary Struggle (1912-26) 1 Against the War 2 On Elections 3 On Soviets 4 On Strategy and Tactics 5 On Fascism, against Fascism 6 The Lyons Theses 7 Against Stalin and 'Socialism in One Country' Part 2 The Struggle for the Rebirth of Revolutionary Communism (1945-65) Section 1 Russia and Revolution in Marxist Theory 8 Lessons of Counter-revolutions 9 Forty Years of Organically Analysing Russian Events within the Dramatic Context of the Social and Historical Course of the World Section 2 The Critique of Triumphant Capitalism 10 Property and Financial Capital 11 Welfare Economics 12 The Law of Hunger 13 Murder of the Dead 14 Inflation of the State 15 The United States of America (1947-57) Section 3 On the 'Gigantic Movement of Emancipation' of the Coloured Peoples 16 The Factors of Race and Nation in Marxist Theory (1953) 17 East 18 The Multiple Revolutions 19 'Racial' Pressure of the Peasantry, Class Pressure of the Coloured Peoples Section 4 On the Revolutionary Prospects of Communism 20 The Revolutionary Programme of Communist Society 21 Who's Afraid of Automation? 22 The Immediate Revolutionary Programme in the Capitalist West Section 5 On the Party 23 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 Index Illustrations

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• NCID: BC03100520
• ISBN:
  • 9789004234505
• LCCN: 2020007360
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ita
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 515 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HX288.B65
  • DC23 : 335.43
  • DC : 335.40945
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Communism -- Italy
  • LCSH : Communism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA60689706