Quotes by Amadeo Bordiga

About Amadeo Bordiga:

Amadeo Bordiga was an Italian Marxist, a contributor to Communist theory, the founder of the Communist Party of Italy, a leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, a leading figure of the International Communist Party.
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The whole discussion now underway on revolutionary forms in Russia and in China boils down to the judgement to be made of the historical phenomenon of the "appearance" of industrialism and mechanisation in huge areas of the world previously dominated...

Amadeo Bordiga

There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.

Amadeo Bordiga

The place of the worst barbarism is that modern forest that makes use of us, this forest of chimneys and bayonets, machines and weapons, of strange inanimate beasts that feed on human flesh.

Amadeo Bordiga

The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revo­lution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which,...

Amadeo Bordiga

To exploit living labour, capital must destroy dead labour which is still useful. Loving to suck warm young blood, it kills corpses.

Amadeo Bordiga

Author Bio

  • NameAmadeo Bordiga
  • DescriptionItalian politician
  • BornJune 13, 1889
  • DiedJuly 23, 1970
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionPolitician; Journalist; Author