The science and passion of communism : selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)
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The science and passion of communism : selected writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965)
(Historical materialism book series, v. 209)
Brill, c2020
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [500]-506) and index
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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
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Index
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