Eclipse and Re-emergence of the Communist Movement by Dauvé Gilles; Martin François

Author:Dauvé, Gilles; Martin, François
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2015-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

* François Martin was the pen name of François Cerutti, who recently published a book on that part of his life: D’Alger à Mai 68. Mes années de révolution (Paris: Spartacus, 2010).

CHAPTER 3

A CRASH COURSE IN ULTRA-LEFTOLOGY

1) Out of the Past

Palmiro Togliatti, long-time Stalinist and long-time leader of the Italian CP, once called Amadeo Bordiga an iguanodon. Though dinosaurs roamed the Earth for much longer than the human species probably will, one may ask: Why bother about the Communist left?

A good enough reason is that it was the most acute expression of the proletarian movement in the twentieth century, even if the historical situation prevented it from implementing its options and solutions: only at the end of the 1960s were left Communist deeds and ideas revived when a period emerged that needed to re-appropriate the past and pick up historical threads.

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