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<blockquote>'''Left Communism' redirects here, this page is primarily about Italian Left Communism/Bordigism. For other ideologies, including the [[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Dutch/German variant]], see [[Left Communism (Disambiguation)]]'' </blockquote>
<blockquote>'''Left Communism' redirects here. For other ideologies, including the [[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Dutch/German variant]], see [[Left Communism (Disambiguation)]]'' </blockquote>
{{Ideology
{{Ideology
|title = [[File: LeftCom.png]] Left Communism
|image = Leftcomnewimage.png
|caption = "Nice commodities, leftoid!"
|aliases = [[File:LeftCom.png]] LeftCom<br> [[File:Central.png]] Bordigism<br> [[File:Bordiga.png]] Italian Left Communism<br>[[File:Impossible.png]] The Communist Left<br> [[File:PMNM2.png]] Far-left Communism<br>[[File:Altleft.png]] Ultraleft <br> [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Ultra<br> [[File:World.png]] Internationalism<br>[[File: Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] (By LeftComs)<br> [[File:Armchair Left Communism.png]] True Communism (By LeftComs)<br>[[File:Armchair Left Communism.png]] Armchair Marxism <br>
Too Much Communism (by [[File:Ormarxf.png]] Marxists) <br> [[File:Ultroid.png]] Ultroid (Pejoratively)<br>[[File:ChinaCyberLeft.png]] Chinese Cyber Leftism (网络左翼, In [[File:Cball-China.png]] China)<br>[[File:Pinkie-icon.png]] Pinkieism (Wrongly, in [[File:Cball-China.png]] China)<br>[[File:ChinaCyberLeft.png]] Alt-Left with Chinese Characteristics (In [[File:Cball-China.png]] China)<br>[[File:ChinaCyberLeft.png]] cyber leftoid newbies (网左小鬼, Pejoratively by some [[File:Cball-China.png]] Chinese [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism-Leninism|MLs]] )
|alignments =
[[File:Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Left Unity|LeftUnity]] <br>
[[File:Soc.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|Socialists]]
<br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[:Category:Communists|Communists]]
<br>
[[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|Culturally Left]]
<br>
[[File:World.png]] [[:Category:Internationalists|Internationalists]]
|dislikes = [[File:Markets.png]] Commodities <br> [[File:Mao.png]] Revisionism <br> [[File:Lib.png]] Liberals <br> [[File:Classfash.png]] Fascism <br> [[File:Antifa.png]] Anti-Fascism <br> [[File:Stalin.png]] Stalin <br> [[File:Farm.png]] Doing stuff <br> [[File:Caste.png]] Wage labor <br> [[File:ML.png]] Marxism-Leninism
|theorists = *[[File: Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Amadeo Bordiga]] (1889-1970) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy
*[[File: Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Georgy Pyatakov]] (1890-1937) [[File:Cball-USSR.png]] USSR
*Onorato Damen (1893-1979) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy
*Marc Chirik (1907-1990) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France
*[[File:Camatte.png]] [[Left-Accelerationism|Jacques Camatte]] (1935-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France
*[[File:Communization.png]] Gilles Dauvé (1947-) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France
*[[File:YouTube.png]] [[Marxism|Xexizy]] (?-) [[File:Cball-UK.png]] UK
|themecolor = #fc0808
|themecolor = #fc0808
|textcolor = #edf734
|textcolor = #edf734
|title = [[File:LeftCom.png]] '''Italian Left Communism'''
|likes = Armchairs <br> Theory <br> Lasagna
|image =
<gallery>
Leftcomnewimage.png|Damenist Design
Programmism-Valvo-Portrait.png|Programmatist Design
</gallery>
|caption = "Damn those who talk about dogmas!"
|aliases =
[[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>
|influences =
|influences =
[[File:AntiDem.png]] Anti-Democracy<br>
[[File:Anticap.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Capitalism}}<br>
[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] Anti-Stalinism <br>
[[File:AntiDem.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Democracy}}<br>
[[File:World.png]] [[Internationalism]]<br>
[[File:Anti-Liberalism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Liberalism}}<br>
[[File: Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]]<br>
[[File:Anti-Revisionism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Revisionism}} <br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] <br>
[[File:Anti-Stalin.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Stalinism}} <br>
[[File:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] (Accused, erroneously)<br>
[[File:ClassSocDem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy]]<br>
*'''[[File:ChinaCyberLeft.png]] Chinese Cyber Leftism''' {{Collapse|
[[File:Internat.png]] [[Internationalism]]<br>
**[[File:Ochlo.png]] [[Ochlocracy]]
[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]]<br>
**[[File:Anticap.png]] Anti-Capitalism
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]]<br>
|sub=
**[[File:Anti-Revisionism.png]] Anti-Revisionism
**[[File:Neomarx.png]] [[Neo-Marxism]]
[[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:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]]
*[[File:Eco-marxism.png]] [[Eco-Socialism|Eco-Marxism]]<ref>https://libcom.org/article/human-species-and-earths-crust-amadeo-bordiga</ref>
**[[File:RedGuard.png]] [[Revolutionary Progressivism|Red Guards]]
**[[File:Polpot.png]] [[Pol Potism]] (Some)
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]]
**<s>[[File:Kak-Dunce.png]] [[Kakistocracy]]</s>
*[[File:ScientificSoc.png]] [[Marxism|Programmatic Invariancy]]
**[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] (Anarchists' faction)
*[[File:Unitary.png]] [[Centralism|Organic Centralism]]
**[[File:Insarch.png]] [[Insurrectionary Anarchism]] (Anarchists' faction)
*[[File:Vanguardism.png]] [[Particracy|Party Dictatorship]]
}}
|school =
[[File:Impossible.png]] '''The Communist Left''' {{Collapse|
*[[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]]
*[[File:Impossible.png]] [[Impossibilism]]
}}
|regional=
[[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]]
}}
}}
|influenced=
|influenced=
[[File:Neomarx.png]] [[Neo-Marxism]] <br>
[[File:Camatte.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Camattism]] (Formerly)<br>
[[File:Anprim.png]] [[Anarcho-Primitivism]]<br>
[[File:Communization.png]] [[Communization Theory]]<br>
[[File:Auton.png]] [[Autonomism]] <br>
[[File:Lysnoir.png]] [[Lys Noir]]<br>
|theorists =
[[File:Lysnoir.png]] [[Black Lilyism]]<br>
[[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism]] <br>
[[File:Bordiga.png]] [[Leninism|Amadeo Bordiga]] (1889-1970) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy<br>
[[File:Leftac.png]] [[Left-Accelerationism]]<br>
[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism|Earl Robeson]] (?-) [[File:Cball-USA.png]] USA<br>
[[File:YuriiPyatakov.png]] [[Trotskyism|Georgy Pyatakov]] (1890-1937) [[File:Cball-Russian Empire.png]] Russian Empire/[[File:Cball-USSR.png]] USSR<br>
[[File: Libmarx.png]] [[Libertarian Marxism]] <br>
[[File:Luxem.png]] {{PCBA|Spartacism|Onorato Damen}} (1893-1979) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy<br>
|song=[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJwCgM5kgk /leftypol/ choir- Bordiga (leftcom anthem)]}}
[[File:Internation.png]] [[Internationalism|Marc Chirik]] (1907-1990) [[File:Cball-France.png]] France<br>
'''Left Communism''', also called '''Italian Left Communism''', '''Ultra Left''', '''International Left''', or simply '''Bordigism''', is an economically far-left, Marxist ideology. It is a form of Left Communism based off of the ideas and writings of Amadeo Bordiga and the International Communist Party. 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|Marxism-Leninism]], believing it to be a bourgeois current. It regards Stalin as bourgeois opportunist, and regards other Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, such as [[File:Castro-M-26-7.png]] [[Castroism|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. Bordiga and the Italian left communists also considered the Soviet Union to be a bourgeois, capitalist state.
[[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}}
|likes =
[[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>
|dislikes =
[[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)]
}}
{{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 ===
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, 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.


==Personality==
He loves to sit in an armchair all day reading Marx, Bordiga, Pannekoek, Damen, Cammette, Dauve, and Chirik among others, while complaining about other leftists. 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.
Italian Left Communism loves to sit in an armchair all day reading Marx, Bordiga, Damen, Cammette, Dauvé, and Chirik among others while complaining about other leftists. He often defends this behavior with "Theory is praxis." He is often depicted as being hypercritical and cynical to such a degree that no ideology will associate with him apart from [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]].
== Variants ==
===Stylistic Notes===
===[[File:ChinaCyberLeft.png]] Chinese Cyber Leftism===
WIP
Chinese Cyber Leftism generally refers to the ideology of some left-wing Internet users in [[File:Cball-China.png]] mainland China. Generally, they are economically far-left, civically variable and culturally variable (Center Left-leaning). However, a large part of them do not know much about the theory of ideology, and naturally they do not understand the actual means and purposes of Marxism-Leninism. So, we cannot assume that all people on the Internet who held left-wing politics or in favour of "socialism" are Cyber Leftists. In fact, Cyber leftists are not completely ignorant of theory, but their level is uneven, at least higher than those of the [[File:Pinkie-icon.png]] [[Jingoism|Pinkies]]. Cyber Leftism in China are divided into two main factions, which are:
* '''Orthodox Cyber Leftism:''' Their main ideology is [[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]], and believed that the [[File:ChinaCP.png]] Communist Party of China since [[File:Dengf.png]] Deng are no longer pure "socialists" due to the presence of capitalists. They also strive to overthrow the [[File:ChinaCP.png]] CPC to establish a pure-communist China.
* '''Cyber Left-Anarchism:''' Cyber leftists of this faction are anti-state in general and strived to estblish an anarcho-communist society in China.
== Stylistic Notes ==
Left Communism is generally portrayed as sitting in an armchair, reading, theory, and nothing else. He often defends this behavior with "Theory is praxis." He is often depicted as being hyper critical and cynical to such a degree that no ideology will associate with him apart from [[File: Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]].


==How to Draw==
==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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==Relations==
==Relations==
===True Proletarians===

*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - I'm the only one that listens to him, smh.
===True Communists===

*[[File: Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - I'm the only one that listens to him, smh. Although he complains I'm too communist.
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] - We disagree on tactics here and there, but we are both true communists!
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] - We disagree on tactics here and there, but we are both true communists!
*[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy#Spartacist_Left|Spartacism]] - Love you, Rosa!
*[[File: Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]] - My more decentralized cousin. Likes Councils instead of presidents, Reichsführers and premiers, such a weirdo.
*[[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>
*[[File: Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism]] - Love you, Rosa!
*[[File:Libmarx.png]] [[Libertarian Marxism]] - You may be a Marxist, but you need to accept that no restrictions can be placed on the full and unqualified use of the weapons of party and state.
*[[file:Leftac.png]] [[Left-Accelerationism]] - Just sitting in my armchair watching things go NYOOM! He's too fast to comprehend communism in a more slower way!


===Half Communists===
===Lumpenproletariat===
*[[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:Neomarx.png]] [[Neo-Marxism]] - Your contributions to Marxism are colossal although you have some liberal tendencies, which is disgusting.
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Fake Marxist. Fake Leninist. Read the first line of Capital.
*[[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism]] - My fellow pure leftist. But stop trying to steal my armchair and read theory. And also establishing communes in my backyard.
*[[File:Gramsci.png]] [[Neo-Marxism]] - Stalinist cretin who fucked over my positions in the PCI and paved the road for the Bolshevization and Euro"communism" in the party.
*[[file:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] - Your early work was incredible, loved it. But you're just an impotent student movement now with zero proletarian support.
*[[File:Ingsocf.png]] [[Ingsoc]] - You're a totalitarian prick but at least you're the only one who agrees that theory is praxis.
*[[File:Sec.png]] [[Authoritarianism]] - You exist. But you aren't always a bad thing.
*[[File:Polpot.png]] [[Pol Potism]] - You were a murderous dictator but at least you managed to abolish commodity production in Kampuchea. Leave the peace living Vietnamese alone, /pol/ Pot.
*[[File:Nazi.png]] [[National Socialism]] - "Long live the butcher Hitler who works in spite of himself to create the conditions of the proletarian world revolution".
===Read Marx!===

*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Fake Marxist. Fake Leninist. Stop pretending that you read theory when you actually read fake news sources from "anti-imperialist" and "socialist" countries to back up your claims. Read the first line of Capital.
*[[File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] - You're okay for a Marxist-Leninist, but you're still a bourgeois movement that butchers workers.
*[[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]] - I will destroy you with my cyber comrades.
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - You are Marxism-Leninism modernized.
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] - Peak petit-bourgeois.
*[[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:Stalin.png]] [[Stalinism]] - Gravedigger of the revolution! Lenin shouldn't have trusted you!
*[[File:Capcom.png]] [[Capitalist Communism]] - Aren't you SuccDem again?
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - The welfare economy is a failure! You also killed [[File: Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism|Luxemburg and Liebknecht]]!
*[[File:Capcom.png]] [[Capitalist Communism]] - You are a SuccDem.
*[[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]] - The velvet glove of Fascism.
*[[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]] - The velvet glove of Fascism.
*[[File:Democratic Fascism.png]] [[Illiberal Democracy|Democratic Fascism]] - See, I told you.
*[[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:Demsocstar.png]] [[Democratic Socialism]] - You can tell democratic socialism is bourgeois because "democratic" is right there in the name.
*[[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:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]] - You're just Deng again.
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]] - Anti-Fascism is the worst product of Fascism!
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Anti-Fascism]] - Antifa is a product of Fascism!
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Die and burn in hell, capitalist pig!
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Die and burn in hell, capitalist pig!
*[[file:Socauth.png]] [[Social Authoritarianism]] - [[file:ML.png]] Him, but without the mask!
*[[File:Nazcap-Hat.png]] [[National Capitalism]] - One-upped regular Crapitalism in being a jerk.
*[[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:Hoxha.png]] [[Hoxhaism]] - You claim to be "against all forms of revisionism" yet you're a Stalinist, curious. 🤔
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] and [[Titoism]] [[File:Tito.png]] - L*beral Vaushite.
*[[File:Marketsoc.png]] [[Market Socialism]] and [[File:Tito.png]] [[Titoism]] - L*btards with Socialist masks.
*[[File:Liberalsoc.png]] [[Liberal Socialism]] - Literally a l*btard with a socialist mask!
*[[File:Reactsoc.png]] [[Reactionary Socialism]] - Marx destroyed you lmao. Reactionaries are shit.
*[[File:Reactsoc.png]] [[Reactionary Socialism]] - Marx destroyed you lmao. Reactionaries are shit.
*[[File:LeftNazbol.png]] [[National Bolshevism|Left Nazbol]] - The KAPD was right in expelling Laufenberg and Wolffheim.
*[[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>


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*[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://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://libcom.org/article/endnotes-journal Endnotes] by various authors
*[https://files.libcom.org/files/Tiqqun1.pdf Tiqqun #1] by Tiqqun
*[https://files.libcom.org/files/Tiqqun1.pdf Tiqqun #1] by Tiqqun


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*[[w:International Communist Party International Communist Party|International Communist Party]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeo_Bordiga Amadeo Bordiga]
*[[w:Communist Workers' Party of Germany Communist Workers Party of Germany|Communist Workers Party of Germany]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Communist_Party International Communist Party]
*[[w:Communization Communization|Communization]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Workers'_Party_of_Germany Communist Workers Party of Germany]
*[[w:Left communism in China Left communism in China|Left communism in China]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communization Communization]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Camatte Jacques Camatte]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_communism_in_China Left communism in China]


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'Left Communism' redirects here. For other ideologies, including the Dutch/German variant, see Left Communism (Disambiguation)

"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."

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 Leninist ideology that opposes Marxism–Leninism, believing it to be a bourgeois current. It regards Stalin as a bourgeois opportunist and regards other Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, such as Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Ho Chi Minh and 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, 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 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.
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.
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.
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.

Beliefs

Opposition to antifa

Personality

Italian Left Communism loves to sit in an armchair all day reading Marx, Bordiga, Damen, Cammette, Dauvé, and Chirik among others while complaining about other leftists. He often defends this behavior with "Theory is praxis." He is often depicted as being hypercritical and cynical to such a degree that no ideology will associate with him apart from Marxism.

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.

Flag of Italian Left Communism

Drawing Italian Left Communism takes a few steps:

  1. Draw a ball
  2. Fill it with red
  3. Draw 2 intertwined yellow wheat spikes
  4. Draw a black hammer and sickle
  5. Draw the eyes and you're done!
Color Name HEX RGB
Red #FC0808 252, 8, 8
Gold #EDF734 237, 247, 52
Black #141414 20, 20, 20


Relations

True Proletarians

  • Marxism - I'm the only one that listens to him, smh.
  • Leninism - We disagree on tactics here and there, but we are both true communists!
  • Spartacism - Love you, Rosa!
  • Bukharinism - "Bukharin is in line not only with Marx but also with Lenin".[4]

Lumpenproletariat

  • Council Communism - "We agree with Lenin's theses at the 2nd Congress".[5]
  • Trotskyism - Early work was incredible, I loved it. But you're just an impotent student movement with zero proletarian support.
    • And you're just a loner in an armchair.
  • 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."
  • Fascism - The iron boot of Democracy. Ignore these quotes here please
  • 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!)

  • Marxism–Leninism - Fake Marxist. Fake Leninist. Read the first line of Capital.
  • Neo-Marxism - Stalinist cretin who fucked over my positions in the PCI and paved the road for the Bolshevization and Euro"communism" in the party.
  • Maoism - You're okay for a Marxist-Leninist, but you're still a bourgeois movement that butchers workers.
  • Dengism - You are Marxism-Leninism modernized.
  • Anarcho-Communism - Peak petit-bourgeois.
  • Social Democracy - The welfare economy is a failure! You also killed Luxemburg and Liebknecht!
  • Capitalist Communism - Aren't you SuccDem again?
  • Democracy - The velvet glove of Fascism.
  • Democratic Fascism - See, I told you.
  • 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.
  • State Capitalism - You're just Deng again.
  • Anti-Fascism - Antifa is a product of Fascism!
  • Capitalism - Die and burn in hell, capitalist pig!
  • National Capitalism - One-upped regular Crapitalism in being a jerk.
  • Social Authoritarianism - Him, but without the mask!
  • Hoxhaism - You claim to be "against all forms of revisionism" yet you're a Stalinist, curious. 🤔
  • Market Socialism and Titoism - L*btards with Socialist masks.
  • Liberal Socialism - Literally a l*btard with a socialist mask!
  • Reactionary Socialism - Marx destroyed you lmao. Reactionaries are shit.
  • National Bolshevism - The KAPD was right in expelling Laufenberg and Wolffheim.
  • 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.”[6]
  • 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.”[7]

Further Information

Theory

Amadeo Bordiga

Jacques Cammette

Communization

Political Parties

Wikipedia

Online Communities

Gallery

References

  1. ↑ https://libcom.org/article/onwards-barbarians
  2. ↑ https://libcom.org/article/human-species-and-earths-crust-amadeo-bordiga
  3. ↑ https://libcom.org/article/human-species-and-earths-crust-amadeo-bordiga
  4. ↑ https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1956/12/bukharin.html
  5. ↑ https://libcom.org/article/letter-amadeo-bordiga-karl-korsch
  6. ↑ https://libcom.org/article/reflections-mark-fishers-essay-capitalist-realism
  7. ↑ http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2022-03-29/nationalism-and-internationalism

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