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Book SynopsisAmadeo 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.
Trade ReviewInterview by David Broder with Pietro Basso on Jacobin about “the burying of Bordiga’s name, his ecological vision of communism, and how he challenged Joseph Stalin to his face” [Click here] “[The book] is the first English-langauge selection of Bordiga’s writings to cover both the chronological spread and thematic diversity of his interventions. The fine translations by Giacomo Donis and Patrick Camiller allow non-Italian speakers fresh insight into what Basso charmingly calls the “goldmine” of Bordiga’s vast array of research… For many decades, even the results of this research have had a tiny readership… [but] when you do get your hands on a copy, you will be in doubt that Bordiga is a wrongly overlooked thinker.” - David Broder, in: Weekly Worker [Full review]
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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
