>refused to worship democracy, called it “the dictatorship of capital with ballots”
>stood against fascism and liberal antifascism, saying both were just bourgeois factions
>literally predicted that antifascist fronts would neuter revolutionary potential and keep capitalism alive (see his critiques of the Popular Fronts, 1930s)
>called out the USSR under Stalin as “capitalist in essence” while most communists were still drinking the Kool-Aid
>argued that Russia’s NEP and forced industrialization = state capitalism decades before it became common knowledge
>wrote “The Democratic Principle” (1922) where he shredded the idea that socialism can be won through elections
>basically said: “parliamentarism is just capitalism in slow motion”
>predicted the collapse of Nazi Germany as a byproduct of capitalist contradictions, not antifascist heroism
>denounced the fetish of “antifascism” because even if you beat fascism, capitalism still wins
>stood against Stalinism when it was dangerous to do so, called out the USSR’s degeneration into state capitalism decades before mainstream historians admitted it
>was arrested by Mussolini’s regime, literally told the police “I’m a communist, arrest me if you like, it changes nothing”
>said that the holocaust wasn't driven primarily by ideology, but instead by the need to liquidate the jewish middle class and enrich the "aryan" petty bourgeoisie
What did bordiga mean by this??