Amadeo Bordiga

[Sinister Intents]

I've been reading this dude's writings, what should I walk away with exactly? I like his stuff but I don't know what to think. Help/advice?

[Tim Cornelis]

Generally when I read stuff, I take what I agree with, and discard with what I disagree with. I hope that helps!

[Sinister Intents]

Generally when I read stuff, I take what I agree with, and discard with what I disagree with. I hope that helps!

Sounds good enough! Very self explanatory and a bit obvious, but none the less useful.

I've read the top three items on his MIA page. What is his most important text? What of organic centralism?

[The Intransigent Faction]

Posting about Bordiga on Chit-Chat? Do you realize what you've just unleashed?!
I think it's disputed whether he wrote "Auschwitz: The Great Alibi" or not, but while I don't agree with his views on centralism, if I'm not mistaken he was part of the ICP's "intransigent faction" on the question of a "united front" against fascism.

So others will disagree, but personally what I'd take from it is that his resolute position against a united front or other such forms of compromise, while admirable in itself, led him to mistaken conclusions about the nature of democracy and the supposed need for a vanguard party. When you're part of such an "enlightened minority" opinion, it's perhaps tempting to want to form that kind of political organ out of it, but one can accept his position on anti-fascism and still reject vanguardism.

I suppose you've read Party and Class. The aforementioned work on anti-fascism is also very much worth a read, I think, despite questions about its authorship.

I'd also recommend reading "Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci"'s sections on the history of the Italian Communist Party, if you want a fairly in-depth, if perhaps somewhat biased, account of Bordiga's positions throughout its existence relative to other factions of the party.

[Sinister Intents]

Bedankt! Hopefully this thread doesn't get dramatic :unsure:

[motion denied]

Useful link (http://libcom.org/library/bordiga-versus-pannekoek).

[The Feral Underclass]

The crazy uncle of the communist movement.