Library of the Communist Left

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  • Force, Violence and Dictatorship in the Class Struggle - Amadeo Bordiga (1946)

    Amadeo Bordiga, 1946. Prometeo, №2 & №4 (1946), №5 & №8 (1947) №9 & №10 (1948). Communist Program, №1, 1975, №3, 1977, №4, 1978, №, 1979. Marxists Internet Archive, 2004. Adrestia's Revolt, 2019. The Solar Collective, 2025.

    Full credit goes to Adrestia's Revolt - her original upload can be found here: https://youtu.be/NegoVXHL8Yg?si=M4pID6V7nxuwkweT

    Article PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1946/violence.htm

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    Chapters

    Chapters

    0:00 Intro

    1:27 I. Actual and Potential Violence

    28:13 II. The Bourgeois Revolution

    58:09 III. The Democratic Form and the Fascist Form of Bourgeois Rule

    1:24:39 IV. Proletarian Struggle and Violence

    1:58:52 V. The Degeneration of the Proletarian Power in Russia and the Question of the Dictatorship

    2:46:41 Postscript

    2 hr 54 min
  • Towards the Establishment of Workers' Councils in Italy - Amadeo Bordiga (1920)

    Il Soviet, Vol. III, Nos. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7; January 1, 11, February 1, 8, 22 1920, Amadeo Bordiga 1920, Antagonism's Bordiga Archive c. 1999, Andy Blunden 2003, Marxists Internet Archive/ Bordiga Internet Archive c. 2003, The Solar Collective 2025.

    Article PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1920/workers-councils.htm

    Previous Texts In Series

    Part I - 'The System of Communist Representation' (1919): https://youtu.be/i8mLparMf04

    Part II - 'Is This the Time to Form "Soviets"?' (1919): https://youtu.be/QNlM8ZpKCiQ

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    53 min
  • Property & Capital (Sections 14 - 17) - Prometeo/ Amadeo Bordiga (1948 - 1952)

    Written in 1929. Published in Prometeo n°10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & n°1, 4 between 1948-1952, The Solar Collective 2025

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    0:00 Intro to Part 7

    0:28 Chapter 14: State Capitalism

    9:37 Chapter 15: The Formation of the Communist Economy

    19:25 Chapter 16: Stages of Transformation in Russia After 1917

    29:33 Chapter 17: Utopia, Science, Action

    53 min
  • Property & Capital (Sections 7 - 13) - Prometeo/ Amadeo Bordiga (1948 - 1952)

    Written in 1929. Published in Prometeo n°10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & n°1, 4 between 1948-1952, The Solar Collective 2025

    Article PDF is not yet finished. Our translators will soon have it ready.

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    0:00 Introduction to Part 6

    0:54 Note: Theses Related to Chapters 1‑6

    4:45 Chapter 7: The Ownership of Moveable Property

    5:41 Chapter 8: Industrial Enterprise

    8:14 Chapter 9: Associations Between Enterprises and Monopolies

    11:00 Chapter 10: Finance Capital

    13:40 Chapter 11: Capital and Imperialist Politics

    17:15 Chapter 12: The Modern Enterprise, Without Property and Without Finance: Contracts and Concessions

    23:34 Chapter 13: Interventionism and Economic Dirigism as Management of the State by Capital

    28:21 Notes on the last chapters

    31 min
  • Property & Capital (Section 6) - Prometeo/ Amadeo Bordiga (1948 - 1952)

    Written in 1929. Published in Prometeo n°10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & n°1, 4 between 1948-1952, The Solar Collective 2025

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    0:00 Introduction

    0:21 Capitalism and Urban Property

    54:01 Note: The Real Estate Problem in Italy

    1 hr 15 min
  • Property & Capital (Section 5/ Note 1) - Prometeo/ Amadeo Bordiga (1948 - 1952)

    Written in 1929. Published in Prometeo n°10, 11, 12, 13, 14 & n°1, 4 between 1948-1952, The Solar Collective 2025

    Article PDF is not yet finished. Our translators will soon have it ready.

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    0:00 Introduction

    0:39 The Capitalist Economy Within the Framework of Roman Law

    23:49 Note: The Mirage of Agrarian Reform in Italy

    1 hr 16 min
  • Auschwitz or the Great Alibi (1960) & Auschwitz or the Great Alibi: What We Deny and What We Affirm (1996) - Martin Axelrad

    Article from Communist Left, No. 6, July – December, 1993; translated from La Gauche Communiste, no. 13., 1987. Original in Programme Communiste, N. 11, 1960. Martin Axelrad 1960. Introduction by libcom.org c. 2016. Audiobook by the Solar Collective 2025.

    Extract from Prolétaire No. 437, July-August-Sept. 1996. Martin Axelrad 1996. Marxists Internet Archive (?). The Solar Collective 2025.

    Auschwitz or the Great Alibi (1960): https://libcom.org/article/auschwitz-or-great-alibi#footnote1_g7bgaao

    Auschwitz or the Great Alibi: What We Deny and What We Affirm (1996): https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1996/auschwitz-reply.htm

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    0:00 Introduction

    5:20 Auschwitz or the Great Alibi (1960)

    31:16 Auschwitz or the Great Alibi: What We Deny and What We Affirm (1996)

    41:16 Outro

    43 min
  • Letters to the IIIrd International - Amadeo Bordiga (1919/ 1920)

    Central Committee of the Abstentionist Fraction of the Italian Socialist Party 1919 & 1920, Amadeo Bordiga 1919 & 1920, Antagonism's Bordiga Archive c. 1999, Andy Blunden 2003, Marxists Internet Archive 2009, The Solar Collective 2025.

    Article PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1920/letters.htm

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    0:00 Intro

    0:24 Letter I - 10 November 1919

    9:20 Letter II - 11 January 1920

    17:17 Outro

    20 min

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The Solar Collective presents a free library of audio books with an emphasis on the perspectives and analyses of the communist left.