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<blockquote>'''Left Communism' redirects here, for other ideologies 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 = Gappate-leftcommunism.png
|caption = Nice commodities leftoid!
|aliases = Leftcom <br> Bordigism <br> Ultraleft <br> [[File:Armchair Left Communism.png]] Armchair Marxist
|alignments =
[[File:Leftunity.png]] [[:Category:Left Unity|LeftUnity]] <br>
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[:Category:Communists|Communists]] <br>
[[File:Soc.png]] [[:Category:Socialists|Socialists]] <br> [[File:Prgess.png]] [[:Category:Culturally Left|Culturally Left]] <br> [[File: World.png]] [[:Category:Internationalists|Internationalists]]
|family =
|dislikes = Capitalist mode of production <br> Liberals
|country = Italy
|founder = Amadeo Bordiga (1889-1970)
|themecolor = #fc0808
|themecolor = #fc0808
|textcolor = #edf734
|textcolor = #edf734
|title = [[File:LeftCom.png]] '''Italian Left Communism'''
|greatest_achievement = Read Bordiga<br>Told other people to read Bordiga|likes=Armchairs <br> Theory|influences=[[File: Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism]] <br>
|image =
[[File: Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] <br>
<gallery>
[[File: ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] <br>
Leftcomnewimage.png|Damenist Design
[[File: Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] <br>
Programmism-Valvo-Portrait.png|Programmatist Design
[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]]|influenced=[[File: Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]] <br> [[File:Auton.png]] [[Autonomism]] <br> [[File: Libmarx.png]] [[Libertarian Marxism]]}}
</gallery>
'''Left Communism''', also called '''Ultraleftism''', is a far left ideology inhabiting the left edge of the political compass, and centre vertically, occasionally placed in a more libertarian position.
|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 =
[[File:Anticap.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Capitalism}}<br>
[[File:AntiDem.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Democracy}}<br>
[[File:Anti-Liberalism.png]] {{PCBA|Anti-Liberalism}}<br>
[[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>
|sub=
[[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]]
}}
|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=
[[File:Camatte.png]] [[Post-Leftism|Camattism]] (Formerly)<br>
[[File:Communization.png]] [[Communization Theory]]<br>
[[File:Lysnoir.png]] [[Lys Noir]]<br>
|theorists =
[[File:Bordiga.png]] [[Leninism|Amadeo Bordiga]] (1889-1970) [[File:Cball-Italy.png]] Italy<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: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}}
|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.


Left Communism is made up of several different ideologies who share similarities, including German Council Communism and Italian Programmism ("Bordigism), thus its use as an umbrella term. Among these similarities is 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.
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.


He loves to sit in an armchair all day reading Marx, Bordiga, Pannekoek, Damen, and Chirik among others, while complaining about other leftists. What is often forgotten is that those of the Italian Communist Left 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 and Germany]] who did not consider themselves Leninist.
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==
<br />
===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>


== History ==
== Beliefs ==


=== Origins ===
=== Opposition to antifa ===
The historical origins of left communism come from World War I. Most left communists are supportive of the October Revolution in Russia, but retain a critical view of its development. However, some in the [[File:Councom.png|link=https://polcompball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Dutch–German current]] would in later years come to reject the idea that the revolution had a proletarian or socialist nature, arguing that it had simply carried out the tasks of the bourgeois revolution by creating a state capitalist system.


==Personality==
Left communism first came into focus as a distinct movement around 1918. Its essential features were a stress on the need to build a communist party or workers' council entirely separate from the reformist and centrist elements who "betrayed the proletariat", opposition to all but the most restricted participation in elections and an emphasis on militancy. Apart from this, there was little in common between the two wings. Only the Italians accepted the need for electoral work at all for a very short period of time which they later vehemently opposed, attracting the wrath of Vladimir Lenin in ''"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder''.
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]].

===Stylistic Notes===
=== Russian Left Communism ===
WIP
Left Bolshevism emerged in 1907 as the Vpered group challenged Vladimir Lenin's [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|perceived authoritarianism and parliamentarianism.]] The group included Alexander Bogdanov, Maxim Gorky, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Grigory Aleksinsky, Stanislav Volski and Martyn Liadov. The ''Otzovists'', or Recallists, advocated the recall of RSDLP representatives from the Third Duma. Bogdanov and his allies accused Lenin and his partisans of promoting liberal democracy through "parliamentarism at any price".

In 1918, a faction emerged within the [[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism|Russian Communist Party]] named the Left Communists which opposed the signing of the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Imperial Germany. The Left Communists wanted international proletarian revolution across the world. In the beginning, the leader of this faction was Nikolai Bukharin. They stood for a revolutionary war against the Central Powers; opposed the right of nations to self-determination (specifically in the case of Poland since there were many Poles in this communist group and they did not want a Polish capitalist state to be established); and they generally took a voluntarist stance regarding the possibilities for social revolution at that time.

=== Italian Left Communism ===
The Italian left communists were named left communists at a later stage in their development, but when the Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I) was founded its members actually represented the majority of communists in that country. This was a result of the Abstentionist Communist Faction of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) being in advance of other sections of the PSI in their realization that a separate communist party had to be formed which did not include reformists. This gave them a great advantage over the sections of the PSI who looked to figures such as Giacinto Menotti Serrati and Antonio Gramsci for leadership. It was a consequence of the revolutionary impatience common at a time when revolution, in the narrow sense of an insurrectionary attempt at the seizure of power, was expected to develop in the very near future.

Under the leadership of Amadeo Bordiga, the left was to control the PCd'I until the Lyons Congress of 1926. In this period, the militants of the PCd'I would find themselves isolated from reformist workers and from other anti-fascist militants. At one stage, this isolation was deepened when communist militants were instructed to leave defense organizations that were not totally controlled by the party. These sectarian tactics produced concern in the leadership of the Communist International and led to a developing opposition within the PCd'I itself. Eventually, these two factors led to the displacement of Bordiga from his position as first secretary and his replacement by Gramsci. By then, Bordiga was in a fascist jail and was to remain outside organized politics until 1952. The development of the Left Communist Faction was not the development of the Bordigist current (as it is often portrayed).
<br />

=== Dutch-German Left Communism (Council Communism) ===
Left communism emerged in both countries together and was always very closely connected. Among the leading theoreticians of the more powerful German movement were Antonie Pannekoek and Herman Gorter and German activists found refuge in the Netherlands after the Nazis came to power in 1933. The critique of social democratic reformism can be traced back before World War I since in the Netherlands a revolutionary wing of social democracy had broken from the reformist party even before the war and had built links with German activists. By 1915, the Antinational Socialist Party was founded by Franz Pfemfert and was linked to ''Die Aktion''. After the beginning of the German Revolution in 1918, a leftist mood could be found among sections of the communist parties of both countries. In Germany, this led directly to the foundation of the Communist Workers Party of Germany (KAPD) after its leading figures were expelled from the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) by Paul Levi. This development was mirrored in the Netherlands and on a smaller scale in Bulgaria, where the left communist movement was to mimic that of Germany.
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=== Left Communism in the Communist International ===
Left communists generally supported the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 and entertained enormous hopes in the founding of the Communist International, or Comintern. In fact, they controlled the first body formed by the Comintern to coordinate its activities in Western Europe, the Amsterdam Bureau. However, this was little more than a very brief interlude and the Amsterdam Bureau never functioned as a leadership body for Western Europe as was originally intended. The Vienna Bureau of the Comintern may also be classified as left communist, but its personnel were not to evolve into either of the two historic currents that made up left communism. Rather, the Vienna Bureau adopted the ultra-left ideas of the earliest period in the history of the Comintern.

Left communists supported the Russian revolution, but did not accept the methods of the Bolsheviks. Many of the Dutch–German tradition adopted Rosa Luxemburg's criticism as outlined in her posthumously published essay entitled ''The Russian Revolution''. In this essay, she rejected the Bolshevik position on distribution of land to the peasantry and their espousal of the right of nations to self-determination which she rejected as historically outmoded. The Italian left communists did not at the time accept any of these criticisms and both currents would evolve.

To a considerable degree, Lenin's well known polemic ''Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder'' is an attack on the ideas of the emerging left communist currents. His main aim was to polemicize with currents moving towards pure revolutionary tactics by showing them that they could remain based on firmly revolutionary principles while utilizing a variety of tactics. Therefore, Lenin defended the use of a parliamentary system and working within the official trade unions.

== Stylistic Notes ==
Left Communists are generally portrayed as sitting in an armchair, reading, theory, and nothing else. He often defends this behavior with "Theory is praxis." They are often depicted as being hyper critical and cynical to such a degree that no other ideologies will associate with them.


==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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Drawing Left Communism takes a few steps:
Drawing Italian Left Communism takes a few steps:


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==Relations==
==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!
*[[File:Luxem.png]] [[Classical Social Democracy#Spartacist_Left|Spartacism]] - Love you, Rosa!
*[[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>


===Friends===
===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: Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - I'm the only one that listens to him, smh.
*[[File: Councom.png]] [[Council Communism]] - My more decentralized cousin.
*[[File:ML.png]] [[Marxism–Leninism]] - Fake Marxist. Fake Leninist. Read the first line of Capital.
*[[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: Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism]] - Love you, Rosa!
*[[File:Libmarx.png]] [[Libertarian Marxism]] - You have the right ideas, but you still need to take the Leftcompill.
*[[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:Leftac.png]] [[Left-Accelerationism]] - Just sitting in my armchair watching things go NYOOM!
*[[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.
*[[File:Democratic Fascism.png]] [[Illiberal Democracy|Democratic Fascism]] - See, I told you.
*[[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]] [[Anti-Fascism]] - Antifa is a product of Fascism!
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Die and burn in hell, capitalist pig!
*[[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: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: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==
===Frenemies===
===Theory===
====Amadeo Bordiga====


*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation]
*[[File:Communalist.png]] [[Communalism]] - My fellow pure leftist. But stop trying to steal my armchair and read theory.
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm The Democratic Principle]
*[[File:Orthlen.png]] [[Leninism]] - We disagree on tactics here and there, but we are both true communists!
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm Dialogue with Stalin]
*[[file:Trot.png]] [[Trotskyism]] - Your early work was incredible, loved it. But you're just an impotent student movement now with zero proletarian support.
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm The Lyons Theses]
*[[File:Ingsocf.png]] [[Ingsoc]] - You're a totalitarian prick but you're the only one who agrees that theory is praxis.
*[https://libcom.org/library/human-species-earths-crust-amadeo-bordiga The Human Species and Earth's Crust]
*[https://libcom.org/library/lessons-counterrevolutions-amadeo-bordiga Lessons of the Counter-revolutions]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1912/balkan.htm The Balkan War]


===Enemies===
====Jacques Cammette====


*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/capcom/index.htm Capital and Community]
*[[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.
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/agdom.htm Against Domestication]
*[[File:Mao.png|link=https://polcompball.fandom.com/wiki/File:Mao.png]] [[Maoism]] - Yet another bourgeois movement that butchers workers.
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/capcom/on-org.htm On Organization]
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - I mean, you oversaw the conditions that proletarianized China instead of doing the stupid peasant stuff Mao did, but you're still another bloody capitalist.
====[[File:Communization.png]] Communization====
*[[File:Ancom.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism]] - Peak petit-bourgeois.
*[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
*[[File:Stalin.png]] [[Stalinism]] - Why must you taint the name of Marxism?
*[https://libcom.org/article/endnotes-journal Endnotes] by various authors
*[[File:Socdem.png]] [[Social Democracy]] - The welfare economy is a failure! You also killed [[File: Luxem.png]] [[Luxemburgism|My mother]]!
*[https://files.libcom.org/files/Tiqqun1.pdf Tiqqun #1] by Tiqqun
*[[File:Capcom.png]] [[Capitalist Communism]] - You are a S*cDem.

*[[File:Dem.png]] [[Democracy]] - The velvet glove of fascism.
===Political Parties===
*[[File:Fash.png]] [[Fascism]] - The iron boot of democracy.

*[[File:Statecap.png]] [[State Capitalism]] - Cringe!
*[https://www.international-communist-party.org/ International Communist Party]
*[[File:Antifa.png]] [[Antifa]] - Anti-Fascism is the worst product of Fascism!
*[https://www.leftcom.org/en/about-us Communist Workers Organization]
*[[File:Cap.png]] [[Capitalism]] - Die and burn in hell!
*[[file:Socauth.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]] - L*beral Vaushite


==Further Information==
===Wikipedia===
===Wikipedia===


*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_communism Left communism]
*[[W:Left communism|Left communism]]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordigism Bordigism]
*[[w:Bordigism Bordigism|Bordigism]]
*[[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]]

===Online Communities===
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultraleft/ r/Ultraleft] (meme sub)


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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

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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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