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LONG LIVE ENVER PASA ERDOGAN THE TURANIC AFRICAN EMPIRE WILL TAKE THIS WIKI FOR OURSELVES AVENGE THE FALLEN BLACK TURKISH WARRIORS OF THE OTTOMAN CRESCENT THAT STOOD AND FOUGHT THE WH*TE DOGS OF THE WIKI!


<blockquote>'''Left Communism' redirects here. For other ideologies, including the [[File:Councom.png]] [[Council Communism|Dutch/German variant]], see [[Left Communism (Disambiguation)]]'' </blockquote>
Avenge the fallen BLACK warriors of Türkiye. Our Afrikan brothers and their struggle against wh*te p*gan wignat subhumans, k*rd anarchists, Western leftoids, pajeet cow worshippers, Arm*nians, and Gayreeks. Follow Mehmed II, Erdogan, Sultan Suleiman, Enver Paşa, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan and Atatürk! We must expand Türkiye and recreate the Ottoman Empire! Victory to Erdogan! Genocide those filthy k*rd terrorists! We will pave road to the Turkic Turanist Empire and battle with our allies of Kampuchea, Mongolia, Korea, China, and Vietnam against wh*te dogs!
{{Ideology
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|title = [[File:LeftCom.png]] '''Italian Left Communism'''
|image =
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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: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]]
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|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]]
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|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.


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.
I imagine myself in Europe, getting ready for combat and leading my BLACK Turkish Turanic Platoon. We are the KARA BOĞA. Our mission is to stop wh*te suhhuman wignat p*gan dogs from advancing. We mow down wh*te dogs but they keep coming. I shoot wh*te dogs but I run out of ammo so I draw my sword and begin slaughtering wh*tes, since wh*tes are way more psychically weaker and inferior to me, I slay them by dozens. Then I get shot, but I didn't fall, I kept fighting. Then shot again and again. wh*te p*gans were shooting at me with RPG rocket launchers and M4A1 automatic guns from a distance like the subhuman cowards they are. The BLACK man is the epitome of male dominance and masculinity. Let's start by looking at his body. His body is large. His domineering size makes his presence known without him even needing to point himself out. He is muscular, as a result of his high levels of testosterone. This gives him the appearance of health and strength. He is then covered by his dark skin. This dark skin reminds us of his ruggedness, a feature that developed due to being exposed to the scorching sun of Africa, made to withstand such an extreme condition. It also has a psychological effect on the observer. The dark skin reminds us of our dark, deep desires that emerge from our primal subconscious past. Wh*te subhuman p*gans, how does this make you feel? You could have a completely homogenous community of rich middle class wh*tes. A nice town with almost no crime, an all round good community. However because of the weakness of the wh*tes all it would take to destroy this community is one KARA BOĞA? Just imagine, it's a nice sunny Sunday afternoon, imagine the bustle of this town full of 100% wh*te dogs who worship cum-drinking comic book characters as their deity until suddenly a couple of muscular BLACK bulls walk up. The women would feel more attraction to these superior, strong KARA BOĞAS infinitely more than their pathetic wh*te cuckold husbands. Every woman would be begging, grovelling to be impregnated by these overlords, the new kings of the town who earned this position with nothing but their superior presence. And these KARA BOĞAS wouldn't stop until every girl was carrying their children, the wh*te women's original children would probably be neglected. Who the fuck would want to raise these inferior children? They are only going to turn out like their fathers. The Men? The men would flee after realizing how futile their attempts at winning back their wives attraction would be. They would flee to Japan where they will try to win over FAS looking ugly Jap girls because they are the only things disgusting and lonely enough to accept them. Many would probably be rejected after the Japs hear of their shameful and dishonorable display, even they probably would have killed themselves to avoid the shame. Back home in the once nice town, every woman will be raising their BLACK children and will be queuing up for their second or maybe even third pregnancy. These children will be raised to become warriors of KARA BOĞA and join the Turkic Turanist Empire. They wont stop until they hit menopause, because they know deep down that their purpose is to populate the world with superior BLACK bulls who will then move on to destroy other towns. This is REAL colonization. You can't take over a place without winning the attraction or respect of the people, that method will always collapse. The Mongols will join the Turkic Turanist Empire and lead their charging battle hordes of Bulgarians, Serbs, Bosniaks, Italians, and Hungarians(The Europeans who we will spare and let join us.) The Mexicans, Haitians, Brazilians, Cubans, are all STRONG KARA BOĞA BLACK BULL WARRIORS who will help us conquer wh*te dogs in AmeriKKKa and Canada. We will slay Israeli J**s as PBUH Muhammed beheaded 700 J**s in one day. Pajeet cow worshipping shit-smeared skin subhumans from India will face our true wraith and power!

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 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===
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|Bordiga_flag.svg}}
Drawing Italian Left Communism takes a few steps:

# Draw a ball
#Fill it with red
#Draw 2 intertwined yellow wheat spikes
#Draw a black hammer and sickle
#Draw the eyes and you're done!

{{Flag-auto
|c1 = Red
|h1 = #FC0808
|c2 = Gold
|h2 = #EDF734
|c3 = Black
|h3 = #141414}}

==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>

===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: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: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.
*[[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==
===Theory===
====Amadeo Bordiga====

*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/orientation.htm The Fundamentals for a Marxist Orientation]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1922/democratic-principle.htm The Democratic Principle]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm Dialogue with Stalin]
*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1926/lyons-theses.htm The Lyons Theses]
*[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]

====Jacques Cammette====

*[https://www.marxists.org/archive/camatte/capcom/index.htm Capital and Community]
*[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===

*[https://www.international-communist-party.org/ International Communist Party]
*[https://www.leftcom.org/en/about-us Communist Workers Organization]

===Wikipedia===

*[[W:Left communism|Left communism]]
*[[w:Bordigism Bordigism|Bordigism]]
*[[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]]

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

==Gallery==
<gallery>
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Moonatik - Gravedigger.png|Credit: u/Moonatik [https://www.reddit.com/r/Polcompball/comments/j9quow/gravedigger/ Source]
</gallery>

==References==
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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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