Lotta Comunista: The Origins 1943-1952 Guido La Barbera Contents 9. Preface to the English Edition 13. Preface 19. Useful dates 21. Chapter One «ONE OUGHT TO KNOW WITH WHOM ONE IS DEALING» 25. The balance-of-power theory 27. Theory and the ‘strategy-party’ 29. Chapter Two THE FOUNDRY AND THE PARTISAN STRUGGLE 31. The Savona group 39. Passion disciplined by reason 40. Never again a tool in the hands of others 41. The Genoa group 46. The Sestri Ponente group 48. The groups in Rome and Tuscany 52. The strength of GAAP: ‘only a handful’ 55. Chapter Three LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM: A DIFFERENT KIND OF COMMUNISM 58. Reckoning with Bordiga 60. The Kronstadt article 61. I’m not an anarchist. Do I have to say it again? 62. An initial confrontation 64. The Arshinov platform 66. The «little group» phobia 67. Between Gramsci and Lenin 68. Working towards a new Leninism 70. The second confrontation 77. A stumbling block: the «simultaneous withering away» of the State 78. The third confrontation: the «issue of imperialism» 80. A dozen confident and great-hearted men 82. Anarchism: a focused, federated movement 84. The militant Bolshevik spirit 85. The battle at Ilva, Savona 87. Chapter Four PONTEDECIMO, GENOA, 1951 89. Doubts on the theory of the State 90. February 1951: Pontedecimo 96. Do we understand the historical meaning of the party’s actions ? 98. Theories on the State 103. A workers’ group 105. Organising ourselves 100% 109. Chapter Five THE ‘IMPERIALIST DEMOCRACY’ ISSUE 112. ‘Imperialist democracy’ in The Political Shell 114. Bukharin’s ‘New Leviathan’ theory 115. Lenin’s initial disagreement 116. Notes on Marxism and the State 118. ‘State and Revolution’: Marxism and anarchism 120. ‘Absterben’, ‘Abschaffung’, ‘Sprengung’ 122. The New Leviathan and the National Question 125. ‘State totalitarianism’ and the move towards Fascism 128. New Leviathan and World Leviathan 130. Asian Leviathans and the theory of the State 135. Chapter Six THE UNITARY IMPERIALISM ISSUE 138. Three notes on unitary imperialism 139. A note on the theory of uneven development 141. The ambiguities of ‘Third Front’ / ‘Third Force’ 142. ‘Highly dangerous and wild’ formulations 144. The European currents of the ‘Third Force’ 146. The ‘Third Force’ in France 148. The Gauche and the ‘Cold War’ 149. Michel Pablo’s ‘The Coming War’ 151. The ‘Third Front’ of France’s libertarian communists 154. Studying international politics 156. A forecast on China 158. The Third Front decision 162. A year of fertile ‘exile’ in Argentina 164. A discussion on ‘totalitarianism’ 167. Chapter Seven THE 'THIRD FRONT’ AND THE THORNY ISSUE OF EUROPE 169. Six months of arm-wrestling 171. The ‘betrayal’ myth 172. The need for theory 174. The Second National Conference at Florence 175. Back to the «little group» and anarchism 177. The search for a scientific order 179. The Turin group crisis 180. The problem of European imperialism 186. Open disagreement 189. «I don’t know of any anarchist economists» 191. Chapter Eight 1952: SOURCES FOR THE CLASH OVER EUROPE 193. Stalin and ‘The Economic Problems of Socialism’ 195. The international debate: Il Mondo and Turin’s La Stampa 198. The Amadeo Bordiga - Onorato Damen confrontation 201. ‘Los Tres Grandes’ 208. Methodology: a plurality of bourgeois sources 209. Chapter Nine THE TRUE PARTITION: A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY 211. Imperialism and the balance of power: a correction to the theory 214. In Arrigo Cervetto’s laboratory 216. 1951 texts: a re-examination 220. The «true partition» theory is born 221. Marx and equilibrium theory 226. Education on strategy: the big push 231. Chapter Ten THE 1980s: DRAWING UP THE BALANCE 234. The mighty dollar’s super-imperialism 235. The risks of the two super-imperialisms theory 237. More on the «true partition» 239. Three interpretations of Yalta 245. The genetic concept of unitary imperialism 247. Chapter Eleven CONCLUSIONS 253. Bibliography 265. Newspapers of the Workers’ Revolutionary Movement Quoted in the Book 266. Glossary 268. Maps 269. Index of Personal Names 275. Biographical Profiles Labels Lotta Comunista: The Origins 1943-1952
Guido La Barbera Contents 9. Preface to the English Edition 13. Preface 19. Useful dates 21. Chapter One «ONE OUGHT TO KNOW WITH WHOM ONE IS DEALING» 25. The balance-of-power theory 27. Theory and the ‘strategy-party’ 29. Chapter Two THE FOUNDRY AND THE PARTISAN STRUGGLE 31. The Savona group 39. Passion disciplined by reason 40. Never again a tool in the hands of others 41. The Genoa group 46. The Sestri Ponente group 48. The groups in Rome and Tuscany 52. The strength of GAAP: ‘only a handful’ 55. Chapter Three LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM: A DIFFERENT KIND OF COMMUNISM 58. Reckoning with Bordiga 60. The Kronstadt article 61. I’m not an anarchist. Do I have to say it again? 62. An initial confrontation 64. The Arshinov platform 66. The «little group» phobia 67. Between Gramsci and Lenin 68. Working towards a new Leninism 70. The second confrontation 77. A stumbling block: the «simultaneous withering away» of the State 78. The third confrontation: the «issue of imperialism» 80. A dozen confident and great-hearted men 82. Anarchism: a focused, federated movement 84. The militant Bolshevik spirit 85. The battle at Ilva, Savona 87. Chapter Four PONTEDECIMO, GENOA, 1951 89. Doubts on the theory of the State 90. February 1951: Pontedecimo 96. Do we understand the historical meaning of the party’s actions ? 98. Theories on the State 103. A workers’ group 105. Organising ourselves 100% 109. Chapter Five THE ‘IMPERIALIST DEMOCRACY’ ISSUE 112. ‘Imperialist democracy’ in The Political Shell 114. Bukharin’s ‘New Leviathan’ theory 115. Lenin’s initial disagreement 116. Notes on Marxism and the State 118. ‘State and Revolution’: Marxism and anarchism 120. ‘Absterben’, ‘Abschaffung’, ‘Sprengung’ 122. The New Leviathan and the National Question 125. ‘State totalitarianism’ and the move towards Fascism 128. New Leviathan and World Leviathan 130. Asian Leviathans and the theory of the State 135. Chapter Six THE UNITARY IMPERIALISM ISSUE 138. Three notes on unitary imperialism 139. A note on the theory of uneven development 141. The ambiguities of ‘Third Front’ / ‘Third Force’ 142. ‘Highly dangerous and wild’ formulations 144. The European currents of the ‘Third Force’ 146. The ‘Third Force’ in France 148. The Gauche and the ‘Cold War’ 149. Michel Pablo’s ‘The Coming War’ 151. The ‘Third Front’ of France’s libertarian communists 154. Studying international politics 156. A forecast on China 158. The Third Front decision 162. A year of fertile ‘exile’ in Argentina 164. A discussion on ‘totalitarianism’ 167. Chapter Seven THE 'THIRD FRONT’ AND THE THORNY ISSUE OF EUROPE 169. Six months of arm-wrestling 171. The ‘betrayal’ myth 172. The need for theory 174. The Second National Conference at Florence 175. Back to the «little group» and anarchism 177. The search for a scientific order 179. The Turin group crisis 180. The problem of European imperialism 186. Open disagreement 189. «I don’t know of any anarchist economists» 191. Chapter Eight 1952: SOURCES FOR THE CLASH OVER EUROPE 193. Stalin and ‘The Economic Problems of Socialism’ 195. The international debate: Il Mondo and Turin’s La Stampa 198. The Amadeo Bordiga - Onorato Damen confrontation 201. ‘Los Tres Grandes’ 208. Methodology: a plurality of bourgeois sources 209. Chapter Nine THE TRUE PARTITION: A SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY 211. Imperialism and the balance of power: a correction to the theory 214. In Arrigo Cervetto’s laboratory 216. 1951 texts: a re-examination 220. The «true partition» theory is born 221. Marx and equilibrium theory 226. Education on strategy: the big push 231. Chapter Ten THE 1980s: DRAWING UP THE BALANCE 234. The mighty dollar’s super-imperialism 235. The risks of the two super-imperialisms theory 237. More on the «true partition» 239. Three interpretations of Yalta 245. The genetic concept of unitary imperialism 247. Chapter Eleven CONCLUSIONS 253. Bibliography 265. Newspapers of the Workers’ Revolutionary Movement Quoted in the Book 266. Glossary 268. Maps 269. Index of Personal Names 275. Biographical Profiles
