Radical Engagements: Bordiga and the Lyon Theses (6)

We continue the ICP's introduction to the text of the Lyon thesis.

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Bordiga, Amadeo (2020). The Science and Passion of Communism: Selected Writings of Amadeo Bordiga (1912-1965). Translated by Giacomo Donis. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004234505.
Broder, David (2021-10-13). The Rebirth of Italian Communism, 1943–44: Dissidents in German-Occupied Rome. Springer Nature.
El-Ojeili, Chamsy (2015). Beyond Post-Socialism: Dialogues With the Far-left. Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-349-50157-1.
Goldner, Loren (1995). "Amadeo Bordiga, the agrarian question and the international revolutionary movement" (PDF). Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory. 23 (1): 73–100. doi:10.1080/03017609508413387.

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Cohost of Excavations: Jordin Dubin
Cohost of Vulgar Complexity: Abi Hassen
Audio Producer: Paul Channel Strip ( @aufhebenkultur )
Intro Musics: Spaceship Revolution by Etienne Roussel (Solo Intro), Bitterlake (Political Intro), Bitterlake (Strange Intro), The Siege of Kalameth by Jon Björk (Main Show Intro), Teknique by Anthony Earls (Nailing It Down Intro).
Outro Music: Let Down by Issue AB
Intro and Outro Video Design: C. Derick Varn (Main Show Intro, Show Outro), Djene Bajalan (Solo Intro, Political Intro, Space Outro), Bitterlake (Strange Intro)

[TheYoungtrust]

Since you went over it, could you explain the "honeymoon" period of the German Communist Party? It seems highly relevant today. Whenever I look at people today that kind of fit the same role, I only think conspiratorial. It's almost as if they were made in a lab and glow in the dark.