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<blockquote>'''Left Communism' redirects here. For other ideologies, including the [[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Dutch/German variant]], see [[Left Communism (Disambiguation)]]'' </blockquote>
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|title = [[File:LeftCom.png]] '''Italian Left Communism'''
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|caption = "Damn those who talk about dogmas!"
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[[File:LeftCom.png]] LeftCom<br>
[[File:Bordiga.png]] Bordigism<br>
[[File:Bordiga.png]] Left Communism<br>
[[File:Impossible.png]] The Communist Left<br>
[[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism]] (By LeftComs)<br>
[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] (Also by LeftComs)<br>
[[File:Armchair Left Communism.png]] True Communism (Also by LeftComs)<br>
[[File:Programmatism.png]] Programmatism<br>
Stuck in 1917/1848 communism<br>
[[File:ChinaCyberLeft.png]] [https://zhpolcompball.miraheze.org/wiki/%E7%BD%91%E5%B7%A6%E4%B8%BB%E4%B9%89 Cyber Leftism] (in [[File:Cball-China.png]] China)<br>
[[File:Ultroid.png]] Ultra/Ultra Leftoid (Pejoratively)<br>
[[File:Armchair Left Communism.png]] Armchair Marxism (Pejoratively)<br>
|alignments = [[File:Leftunity.png|link=:Category:Left Unity]] [[:Category:Left Unity|{{Color|#F9BABA|'''Leftist'''}} {{Color|#C9E5BD|'''Unity'''}}]] to [[File:Authleft.png|link=:Category:Authoritarian Left]] [[:Category:Authoritarian Left|{{Color|#F9BABA|'''AuthLeft'''}}]]<br>
{{Info|Culturally Left}}<br>
[[File:ProlIntern.png|link=:Category:Internationalists]] [[:Category:Internationalists|{{Color|#B00000|'''Internationalists'''}}]]<br>
{{Info|Communists}}<br>
{{Info|Socialists}}<br>
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[[File:Anti-Revisionism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Revisionism}} <br>
[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Stalinism}} <br>
[[File:ClassSocDem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy]]<br>
[[File:Internat.png]] [[Internationalism]]<br>
[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]]<br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]]<br>
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[[File:Programmatism.png]] '''Programmatism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Anticiv.png]] Anti-Civilization<ref>https://libcom.org/article/onwards-barbarians</ref><ref>https://libcom.org/article/human-species-and-earths-crust-amadeo-bordiga</ref>
*[[File:Eco-marxism.png]] [[Eco-Socialism|Eco-Marxism]]<ref>https://libcom.org/article/human-species-and-earths-crust-amadeo-bordiga</ref>
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]]
*[[File:ScientificSoc.png]] [[Marxism|Programmatic Invariancy]]
*[[File:Unitary.png]] [[Centralism|Organic Centralism]]
*[[File:Vanguardism.png]] [[Particracy|Party Dictatorship]]
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[[File:Impossible.png]] '''The Communist Left''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]]
*[[File:Impossible.png]] [[Impossibilism]]
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[[File:YuriiPyatakov.png]] '''Pyatakovism''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Awaj.png]] [[Anarchism]] (Early on)
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxism-Leninism]] (Formerly)
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] (Accused)
*[[File:Cball-Russian Empire.png]] [[Imperialism|Russian Chauvinism]] (Accused)
*[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Spartacism]]
*[[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]]
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[[File:YuriiPyatakov.png]] [[Trotskyism|Georgy Pyatakov]] (1890-1937) [[File:Cball-Russian Empire.png]] Russian Empire/[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] USSR<br>
[[File:Luxem.png]] {{PCBA|Spartacism|Onorato Damen}} (1893-1979) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy<br>
[[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism|Marc Chirik]] (1907-1990) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France<br>
[[File:Camatte.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Jacques Camatte]] (1935-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France (Formerly)<br>
[[File:Communization.png]] [[Communization Theory|Gilles Dauvé]] (1947-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France<br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism|Xexizy]] (?-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] {{PBW|UKball|UK}}
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[[File:Marxflag.png]] Reading theory<br>
[[File:ScientificSoc.png]] Ruthless criticism of all that exists<br>
[[File:Vanguardism.png]] Centralism<br>
[[File:Armchair Left Communism.png]] Armchairs<br>
[[File:Lenin.png]] Lenin<br>
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[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]]<br>
[[File:Caste.png]] Wage-labor<br>
[[File:Markets.png]] Commodities<br>
[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism]]<br>
[[File:Stalin.png]] Stalin<br>
[[File:Mao.png]] Mao<br>
[[File:Lib.png]] [[Liberalism]]<br>
[[File:Classfash.png]] Fascism<br>
[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]]<br>
[[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]]<br>
[[File:Activm.png]] Activism<br>
|song=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJwCgM5kgk /leftypol/ choir- Bordiga (leftcom anthem)]
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{{Quote|quote="It is not and never has been historically true that the party only emerges in a time of revolutionary assault. On the contrary, it has to be militantly active throughout an entire previous historical period before it can reach its fullness as an organ of leadership and revolutionary action."|speaker= [[File:Luxem.png]] {{PCBA|Spartacism|Onorato Damen}}}}
'''Italian Left Communism''', also called '''Ultra Left''', '''International Left''' or simply '''Left Communism''' is an economically far-left, Marxist ideology. It is a form of Communism based off of the ideas and writings of the Italian left-communists, mainly Amadeo Bordiga and Onorato Damen, along with the International Communist Party. It is recognized to be the furthest Left Unity ideology on the compass. It opposes democracy, anti-fascism and the concept of a "Popular Front". It is a [[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Leninist]] ideology that opposes [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]], believing it to be a bourgeois current. It regards Stalin as a bourgeois opportunist and regards other Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, such as [[File:Castro-M-26-7.png]] [[National Communism|Fidel Castro]], [[File:Guevara.png]] [[Guevarism|Che Guevara]], [[File:HoChiMinh.png]] [[Ho Chi Minh Thought|Ho Chi Minh]] and [[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism|Mao Zedong]] as bourgeois, not proletarian, revolutionaries. While Damen and most Italian left communists considered the Soviet Union to be a bourgeois, capitalist state like any other, Bordiga would go around the thesis and proclaim that the USSR was a state-industrialist state.
This ideology refers specifically to the Italian strain of Left Communism, although other left communist ideologies also exist, namely, [[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Dutch-German leftcoms (Council Communists)]] and Russian leftcoms. These ideologies do have some similarities, the most significant being anti-trade unionism, anti-nationalism/internationalism, and anti-parliamentarism. As well as the belief that true socialism is stateless and classless, and can only be achieved when the capitalist mode of commodity production is completely abolished. Every "socialist" who does not is merely an opportunist capitalist.
It is often forgotten that Italian left communists do consider themselves Leninists, being described as "more Leninist than Lenin". Lenin's work ''"Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder"'' criticised [[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|left communists in Britain, Germany]] and Russia who did not consider themselves Leninist.
==History==
===The Italian Left and the formation of the Communist Party of Italy===
The Italian Left's origins can be traced back to the struggle of the so-called intransigent revolutionary faction, re-established in 1910 to cure the PSI(Italian Socialist Party) of its reformism. When this faction was revived in July 1917 it was in quite a different context. The 1st World War had been raging for almost three years and the PSI had all but disintegrated under its impact.<br>
The new faction was being resurrected under the impetus of Amadeo Bordiga and the Naples section to which he belonged. At the time, like Luxemburg, Bordiga slowly reached the conclusion that the revolutionisation of Social Democracy was impossible and thus there was a need to forge a communist faction which broke from the Social Democracy of the SPD and the 2nd International.<br>
In 1919 at the PSI Congress in Bologna, the Serrati maximalists obtained a clear majority, but the new Left, which was gathering especially around Bordiga as a Communist Abstentionist Fraction against electoral illusions and for the organisation of the revolutionary conquest of power, took shape more and more clearly. The Left had created the Abstentionist Communist Fraction, proclaiming its theoretical base in Marxism, in complete agreement with the tactical line and strategic objectives of the Third International. The only dissent concerned participation in political elections and revolutionary parliamentarism supported by the Bolsheviks.<br>
In January 1921, at the Congress of Livorno, the Communist Left broke with the old and reformist PSI: on the basis of the "21 Conditions" of Moscow it founded The Communist Party of Italy, section of the Third International, and took over the leadership.<br>
== Beliefs ==
=== Opposition to antifa ===
==Personality==
Italian Left Communism
===Stylistic Notes===
WIP
==How to Draw==
The flag comes from the Internationalist Communist Party, a Left Communist party in Italy made by ex-PCI member Onorato Damen.
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Drawing Italian Left Communism takes a few steps:
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==Relations==
===True Proletarians===
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - I'm the only one that listens to him, smh.
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] - We disagree on tactics here and there, but we are both true communists!
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*[[File:Bukh.png]] [[Leninism|Bukharinism]] - "Bukharin is in line not only with Marx but also with Lenin".<ref>https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1956/12/bukharin.html</ref>
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*[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]] - "We agree with Lenin's theses at the 2nd Congress".<ref>https://libcom.org/article/letter-amadeo-bordiga-karl-korsch</ref>
*[[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] - Early work was incredible, I loved it. But you're just an impotent student movement with zero proletarian support.
**{{Alias|Trot.png|File:Trot.png|And you're just a loner in an armchair.}}
*[[File:Auton.png]] [[Autonomism]] - "The working class exists as such only by virtue of its party; without it the proletariat is a class only in a statistical sense."
*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - The iron boot of Democracy. <s>[https://libcom.org/forums/history/bordiga-leninist-who-put-his-hopes-axis-27122017 Ignore these quotes here please]</s>
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[Nazism]] - If Hitler can make yield the odious powers of England and America, while making thus precarious the capitalist world balance, long live the butcher Hitler who works in spite of himself to create the conditions of the proletarian world revolution…
===Bourgeois (Read Marx!)===
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Fake Marxist. Fake Leninist. Read the first line of Capital.
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*[[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] - You're okay for a Marxist-Leninist, but you're still a bourgeois movement that butchers workers.
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - You are Marxism-Leninism modernized.
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] - Peak petit-bourgeois.
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - The welfare economy is a failure! You also killed [[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy|Luxemburg and Liebknecht]]!
*[[File:Capcom.png]] [[Capitalist Communism]] - Aren't you SuccDem again?
*[[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]] - The velvet glove of Fascism.
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*[[File:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] - You can tell democratic socialism is bourgeois because "democratic" is right there in the name. Liberal parliamentary structures work in favor of the bourgeois class, whether you like it or not.
*[[File:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]] - You're just Deng again.
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Die and burn in hell, capitalist pig!
*[[
*[[File:SocauthML.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism]] - [[File:ML.png]] Him, but without the mask!
*[[File:Hoxha.png]] [[Hoxhaism]] - You claim to be "against all forms of revisionism" yet you're a Stalinist, curious. 🤔
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism
*[[File:
*[[File:Reactsoc.png]] [[Reactionary Socialism]] - Marx destroyed you lmao. Reactionaries are shit.
*[[File:Nazbol.png]] [[National Bolshevism]] - The KAPD was right in expelling Laufenberg and Wolffheim.
*[[File:Acidcomf.png]] [[Acid Communism]] - If “Cobain's death confirmed the defeat and incorporation of rock's utopian and promethean ambitions”, Fisher's suicide reaffirms the real powerlessness of any perspective of criticism of capitalism that is not based on solid pillars such as criticism of political economy, the materialist conception of history, the experiences of past class struggles and the communist revolutionary programme that derives from them.”<ref>https://libcom.org/article/reflections-mark-fishers-essay-capitalist-realism</ref>
*[[File:Nation.png]] [[Nationalism]] - “ We are internationalists precisely because we believe workers have the same interests everywhere in putting an end to production for profit and bringing about a global cooperative commonwealth. Because we believe in the need for an international revolutionary organisation to politically link up all the various struggles of our class around the world. And because we believe national strife represents a barrier to the only thing that can overcome the capitalist system of oppression and exploitation – class solidarity. Every day the problems that humanity is facing – economic crises, pandemics, climate collapse, war – cry out for an international solution. It is still nation vs. class, and we know which side we stand on. Workers have no country, but we have a world to win.”<ref>http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-03-29/nationalism-and-internationalism</ref>
==Further Information==
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*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/agdom.htm Against Domestication]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/capcom/on-org.htm On Organization]
====[[File:Communization.png]] Communization====
*[https://files.libcom.org/files/Everything%20Must%20Go!%20The%20Abolition%20of%20Value.pdf Everything must go!: The abolition of value] by Bruno Astarian & Gilles Dauvé
*[https://libcom.org/article/endnotes-journal Endnotes] by various authors
*[https://files.libcom.org/files/Tiqqun1.pdf Tiqqun #1] by Tiqqun
===Political Parties===
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===Wikipedia===
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*[[w:International Communist Party International Communist Party|International Communist Party]]
*[[w:Communist Workers' Party of Germany Communist Workers Party of Germany|Communist Workers Party of Germany]]
*[[w:Communization Communization|Communization]]
*[[w:Left communism in China Left communism in China|Left communism in China]]
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*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/ r/Ultraleft] (meme sub)
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