Is there any document where he extensively writes about the capitalistic nature of the USSR?

According to wikipedia, he used his engineering background to write a very systematic, and economic based argument.

Maybe you'll find here, what you are looking for: http://www.sinistra.net/lib/bor/bordiga.html

http://libcom.org/library/community-...acques-camatte

I think that you would be most likely to find the texts refered to in Italian, French, or even Spanish than English.

Devrim

I can understand French and Spanish.

What the fuck, did the International Communist Party claim the copyrights of Bordiga? What a bunch of asshats. Communists don't care about "copyrights" if there is no profit involved--especially of theoretical works

Yes, I agree.
Devrim

Ok I read the first prologue, and the quotes of Bordiga were interesting but sometimes not convincing.

He argues something about the state-capitalist bureacracy not exactly being a "bourgeosie" in the common sense of the word, but that it is instead a network of speculators and buisnessmen forming capitalist-imperialist alliances with other countries, like the US.

This does makes sense looking at the geopolitical nature of the USSR.

He also argued about capital not needing "capitalists", because apparently marx argued that once the "machine" was set going, it gets a life of itself. It also argued that because of the international nature of capital, there doesnt needs to be a "statistically" identifiable group of national bourgeoisie etc. Simply, a mode of production is defined by the way it reproduces itself.

I dont know. I may elaborate later but the argument seems very esoteric.

In English, I'd say read "The Doctrine of the Body Possessed by the Devil". http://www.sinistra.net/lib/bas/batt...ekeogezue.html

If you read Italian, this is his most major work on Russian economy: http://www.sinistra.net/lib/bas/progra/stru/index.html

Hi,

The Gauche Communiste de France (GCF) also wrote an excellent article on the nature of Stalinist Russia, which you may find relevant:

The Russian experience: Private property and collective property
http://en.internationalism.org/ir/13...ian-experience

Why the specific interest in Bordiga's position on the USSR? There were several analyses around at the time (1940s) but we think the GCF's gave the best framework on which to develop an understanding of the general tendency towards state capitalism, of which Stalinist Russia was just one form.

B.

While I haven't read much of Bordiga's work on the economics of the USSR, Castoriadis wrote a lot about the 'capitalistic nature of the USSR' so you should give him a look as well as Bordiga.