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Amadeo Bordiga | |
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| Born | 13 June 1889 Resina, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 23 July 1970 Formia, Lazio, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Political orientation | Left communism |
| Political party | International Communist Party |
Amadeo Bordiga (13 June 1889 – 23 July 1970) was an Italian left communist who cofounded the Italian Communist Party wiith Antonio Gramsci and Nicola Bombacci. According to Gramsci, Bordiga believed that the Leninist vanguard party and the soviet system of party cells would degenerate into opportunism.[1]
Bordiga's dogmatism led him to declare support for the axis powers, infamously declaring:[2]
“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”
He has also been credited as the author of the article "Auschwitz, or The Great Alibi" which is a work of holocaust denial that claims the Nazi Party did not seek to exterminate Jewish people, but rather the Jewish section of the petit bourgeoisie[3]
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- ↑ Antonio Gramsci (1925). Sterile and Negative Criticism. [MIA]
- ↑ AnythingForProximity (2017-12-27). "Bordiga, the Leninist who put his hopes in the Axis" Libcom.
- ↑ Mitchell Abidor. "Bordiga’s “Auschwitz, or the Great Alibi”" Retrieved 2025/08/25.