Wildest Quotes by Amadeo Bordiga
I am always surprised when I see left-communists defend Bordiga and often even uphold him as the central figure of their ideology, despite his continued defense of fascism. So here are a few of his wildest quotes you can remind leftcoms of when you meet them.
> The great and authentic revolutionaries of the world are two: Mussolini and Hitler. But Mussolini's past shows that Il Duce has always been against the plutocracy and against the democracies, which paralyze the life of nations.
> Therefore, June 10 (the date of Mussolini's declaration of war) was for me what you call a great day. But now that Hitler has grown soft, I begin to lose the trust I had placed in the Axis to strangle and pull down the so-called British colossus, that is, the greatest exponent of capitalism. They are afraid of bringing down England, they are afraid because they know that with it, the whole capitalist system will collapse. [...] I still hope that Hitler will not renounce the struggle, and will go all the way, to the extreme consequences.
https://libcom.org/forums/history/bordiga-leninist-who-put-his-hopes-axis-27122017
> Gramsci was of the opinion, as we have already established, that it was useful to make an agreement between all the anti-fascist forces, including liberals like Gobetti, and therefore he wanted to maintain relations with Gobetti himself. I could not, of course, encourage him in this attitude which was contrary to all my principles.
> On the other hand, another part of our own splinter group, precisely the one headed by L'Ordine Nuovo of Gramsci, thought that after the organizational split we could study a combination of battle, of action, of manoeuvring: The two parties would meet again, they would march together to confront the bourgeois reactionary force that in the meantime giantised, that is, fascism. We, on the other hand, representatives of the pure tradition of the left, thought it more appropriate to throw ourselves against the socialists than against the fascists.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/2013/interview.htm