butchdot: Happy birthday, Amadeo Bordiga! (June 13, 1889)One of the most critical figures in the dev
butchdot: Happy birthday, Amadeo Bordiga! (June 13, 1889)One of the most critical figures in the development of left communist theory, Amadeo Bordiga was born in the province of Naples to a respected and progressive academic family with a revolutionary history. Becoming active in radical politics at a young age, joining the Italian Socialist Party before later helping to lead a split in the party and forming the Communist Party of Italy alongside Antonio Gramsci. Bordiga opposed Communist participation in bourgeois elections, a stance which caused tension with Comintern leaders such as Lenin, especially as the line of the popular front took hold in the international Communist movement. He was ultimately expelled from the party he helped to found in 1930, accused of being a Trotskyist. He continued to have followers, however, and his own contributions to Marxist theory have become known as Bordigism.“To exploit living labor, capital must destroy dead labor which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.” -- source link