autonomist Marxism
Darkness at midnight: Review of Midnight Oil - Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992 by Midnight Notes
A review of an anthology of articles by the US autonomist Marxist-influenced Midnight Notes collective and the earlier Zerowork group.
From issue no. 17 of the Wildcat (UK) journal.
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DARKNESS AT MIDNIGHT
There and back again: mapping the pathways within autonomist Marxism - Steve Wright
Steve Wright analysis different currents of autonomist Marxism, centred in Italy from the 1960s and 70s to today.
How to interpret the contours of autonomist Marxism over the past quarter century? Before 1979, any discussion of the topic would necessarily have centred upon the Italian experience.
The door to the garden: feminism and Operaismo - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
A paper on the history of Italian Marxist feminism given at a seminar on Operaismo ('workerism') held in Rome, June 2002 (3,000 words).
In the 1970’s Italian feminism had two sides: one was self-awareness, the other was the operaista feminism of Lotta Femminista (Feminist struggle) that eventually turned into groups and committees for wages for housework campaigns.
The limits of Negri's class analysis: Italian autonomist theory in the seventies - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's critical analysis of Negri's ideas.
From Reconstruction 8 (Winter/Spring 1996)
Over the past decade, Toni Negri's association with Deleuze and Guattari has made his name well known to English-language readers of radical thought. But as STEVE WRIGHT shows, Negri's most distinctive ideas would first be debated within the Italian revolutionary movement of the seventies.
The transgression of a laborer: Malcom X in the wilderness of America
Italian Autonomist Ferruccio Gambino's analysis of the development of Malcolm X's thought, from prison and the factory through to the Nation of Islam, and its deviation from the traditional state-allocated path of ethnic leadership.
[i]The Transgression of a Laborer: Malcolm X in the Wilderness of America[/i]
[i]Ferruccio Gambino (from RADICAL HISTORY, Winter 1993)[/i]
TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
Interview with George Caffentzis on Zerowork, Midnight Notes, autonomist Marxism and American social movements, amongst other things.
TPTG's Conversation with George Caffentzis
PREFACE
George Caffentzis, an offspring of Greek immigrants from Lakonia, a place in southern Greece, is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine. But, as you will see it for yourselves, the 15th of October, 2000, was not for us "an evening with a philosopher". George is an activist to a fault. We met him for the first time in Athens on the 14th of October, 2000, but we have been in correspondence with Midnight Notes editors since 1993.
A libertarian Marxist tendency map
This tendency map was produced by Chris Wright for endpage.com, now part of the libcom.org library - it is designed to trace some of the important tendencies in libertarian Marxism. Contains a brief written history with links to key individuals, groups and publications, and a graphic map.
To help navigate the site, this is a rough, textual "family tree" of libertarian Marxism. Please refer to the Companion Map for a graphical guide to these currents
Response to Sergio Fiedler's Attack on Autonomous Marxism
"This is an article published in the last Green Left Weekly run by the Democratic Socialist Party (leninist, ex-trotsquists) in Sydney Australia. Love & Rage has directed me to write a response, but if comrades from this lists want to write their own it would be a fantastic contribution to the political education of our group. Most of the criticism are directed to Harry Cleaver, so it would really good for us to have a few words from him. Thanks." - Sergio Fiedler
An Interview with Harry Cleaver
Interview with American autonomist Marxist, Harry Cleaver.
A prominent American autonomist, Harry Cleaver lives in Austin, Texas, where he is active in Accion Zapatista. A range of his writings can be found on the Internet at ht tp://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/index2.html. This interview was recorded in London during July 1993 by Massimo De Angelis. It first appeared in Italian in the autonomist journal vis-a-vis 1 (Autumn 1993).
The Inversion of Class Perspective in Marxian Theory: From Valorization to Self-valorization
An article on contemporary Marxism by US academic Harry Cleaver.
In PDF Format.
