Communism is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
For many decades, revolutionary Marxists have understood the social realities of the Soviet Union, China and other so-called "socialist" societies to be the negation of Marx's project of working-class and human emancipation. Many theoreticians, beginning with Rosa Luxemburg in her 1918 "The Russian Revolution", and followed by Mattick, Korsch, Bordiga, Trotsky, Schachtmanor, CLR James (to name only a few), have devoted major energies to settling the famous "Russian question"': the specific meaning, for Marxists, of the defeat of the Russian revolution and the international success of Stalinism.