autonomism

Negri explains his concept of ‘multitude’ in a response to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party’s Alex Callinicos at the European Social Forum in Paris, 2003.

This text is effectively a summary of the arguments in Empire, in particular Negri & Hardt’s contention that Marx’s conception of class struggle is obsolete and that globalisation can be understood as capitalism's response to class struggle (7,000 words).

In this short essay Deleuze looks to move beyond Michel Foucault’s historical understanding of ‘disciplinary societies’, where power is exercised within discrete institutions, towards the concept of 'societies of control'. In many ways it parallels the ideas of the Italian radical left around the concept of the ‘social factory’, providing an intersection between post-structuralist philosophy and autonomist Marxism.

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…

Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt argue that globalisation is transforming individual nation states into a system of diffuse national and global…

This article develops a concept that has been fundamentals to autonomous politics in Italy - the concept of the working class refusal - The…