Revolution retrieved: writings on Marx, Keynes, capitalist crisis and new social subjects - Antonio Negri

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A selection of Negri's articles written between 1967 and 1983. First published in English in 1988 by Red Notes.

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Submitted by Spassmaschine on February 6, 2011

Contents

PREFACE

KEYNES AND THE CAPITALIST THEORY OF THE STATE POST·1929

  • 1929 as a Fundamental Moment for a Periodisation of the Modern State
  • Keynes and the Period 1917·1929: Understanding the Impact of the October Revolution on the Structure of Capitalism
  • Keynes – the Shift from Politics to Science (1929: the Working Class within Capital)
  • Capitalist Reconstruction and the Social State.

    MARX ON CYCLE AND CRISIS

  • The Problem of Development and the Critical Awareness of Political Economy
  • Marx's Analysis of Cycle and Development
  • Development and Capitalist Ideologies of the State
  • The Problem of Development and the Alternatives Offered by Working·Class Science.

    CRISIS OF THE PLANNER·STATE: COMMUNISM AND REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION

  • The Antagonism of the Tendency according to Marx: Present Relevance of his Analysis
  • A Mystified View of the Tendency: the Economists and the Destruction of the Concept of Capital
  • A Disturbing Consequence: the "Subjectivists" and the Contradiction Seen as Result, as Catastrophe
  • Abstract Labour as the Revolutionary Subject: the Basis of the Communist Programme and Proletarian Appropriation
  • The Crisis Of the Planner·State: the Big Enterprise as the Articulation of the Tendency and as the Subject of the Antagonism from Capital's Point of View
  • Preliminary Reflections on Some Objections Regarding Method: Tendency, Science and Practice
  • Against Enterprise Command: the Organisation of Insurrection within the New Composition of the Working Class
  • "Wealth" and "Poverty" of the Proletariat within the Dialectic of Revolution
  • Our Immediate Task
  • Postscript.

    MARX BEYOND MARX: WORKING NOTEBOOKS ON THE GRUNDRISSE

  • The Grundrisse, an Open Work: an Introduction.

    CRISIS OF THE CRISIS·STATE

    ARCHAEOLOGY AND PROJECT: THE MASS WORKER AND THE SOCIAL WORKER

  • Functions and Limitations of the Concept of the Mass Worker
  • Capitalist Restructuring: from the Mass Worker to Social Labour-Power
  • Towards a Critique of the Political Economy of the Mass Worker: from Social Labour-Power to the Social Worker
  • A Political Conception of Labour-Power: the Proletariat. Some Problems.

    DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION?

  • A Proposal for an Interpretation of the Italian Movement of the 1970s, by a group of comrades including Toni Negri.

    AN INTERVIEW WITH TONI NEGRI

  • The April 7th Trial
  • Criminalising the Autonomia
  • Closing Political Spaces
  • The New Class Layers
  • We Are Readers of Marx.

    THE REVOLT AT TRANI PRISON

  • A Story of State Brutality
  • Statements and Accounts.

    LETTER FROM TONI NEGRI

    NEGRI BEFORE HIS JUDGES

    A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

    A READING LIST

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