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.
Keep on smiling - questions on immaterial labour
Aufheben critically review Negri and Hardt's works, Empire and Multitude, examining in particular their conception of "immaterial labour".
Introduction: a colourful necklace
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.
When two sevens clash: punk and autonomia
An article on the relationship between punk and Autonomia presented by Keir at the No Future conference, September 2001.
“Germany got Bader-Meinhof,” went the 1978 poster by the punk band Crass “England got punk.” (Savage, 1991 p.481). But perhaps it should have read: Italy got Autonomia. After all 1977 was a year in which sections of youth in both England and Italy enjoyed explosions of creativity. In Germany it was a year of repression and the closing up of political space.
Take over the city: community struggle in Italy - Lotta Continua
Submitted by libcom on Jan 12 2006 15:08
Excellent article from Lotta Continua about different struggles of workers in their local areas in 1973. It covers self-reduction of prices, squatting and more.
Translated and edited by Ernest Dowson
Radical America, Vol.7 no.2, March-April 1973
Translator's Preface
The limits of Negri's class analysis: Italian autonomist theory in the seventies - Steve Wright
Submitted by libcom on Dec 8 2005 11:34
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 power of women and the subversion of the community
An influential pamphlet by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James in 1972 that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on the role of women, their labour and their struggles.
Foreword
When this book was first published three years ago, it was already clear that the international movement of women had upset basic assumptions on which this society rested. In confronting what happens in the family and on the street, we have had to confront what happens in the factory, the office, the hospital, the school - in every institution of capitalist society.
The transgression of a laborer: Malcom X in the wilderness of America
Submitted by libcom on Oct 28 2005 19:19
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
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