20211017

• [[Bordiga]] tried to figure out where the communist movement should go after [[WW2]]
• some left communists reject [[democracy]] wholesale: even historic democracy was a class formation
• the “left” of [[left communism]] refers being to the left of the Marxist center i.e. the [[Comintern]]
• [[left communists]] are critical of [[unions]]
• [[unions]] are the atomic form of workers power but they can also serve capital interests
• union power needs to link up with council power like in the early Soviet Union
• the dutch [[council communists]] collapsed as a tendency
• [[syndicalists]] were limited at a firm level whereas council communists and left communists wanted to transcend that
• Bordiga was critical of the popular front