Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

Beyond the Periphery of the Skin: An Interview with Silvia Federici

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Celebrating March 8, International Women’s Day … What is the “body” under capitalism? When we speak of the body, how has our sense of “self” in relation to our bodies been redefined, reduced, and mutilated under the logic of capital … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (20) –  Porto Marghera: the last firebrands

Posted on February 24, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

We close our brief selection of texts dedicated to Italy’s operaismo and Autonomia returning to where in some sense it all began, amidst the workers of the country’s large industrial complexes and their struggles for dignity as workers, but struggles … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (18) – Feminism: Silvia Federici

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Italian autonomist Silvia Federici on wages and housework. Federici was co-founder of the International Feminist Collective, and an organizer with the wages for housework campaign. In 1973, she helped start Wages for Housework groups in the US. In 1975 she published Wages Against … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (16) – Feminism: Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

We share below the brilliant and very influential pamphlet The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James of 1972 that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (15) – Feminism

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Hence we must refuse housework as women’s work, as work imposed upon us, which we never invented, which has never been paid for, in which they have forced us to cope with absurd hours, 12 and 13 a day, in … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (14) – Félix Guattari

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Félix Guattari reading the future into the past … The Proliferation of Margins Felix Guattari – Integrated world capitalism does not aim at a systematic and generalized repression of the workers, women, youth, minorities … The means of production on … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (13) – Paolo Virno

Posted on February 22, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Paolo Virno was active in Potere Operaio until its dissolution in 1973. He was actively in the movement of 1977 and with Oreste Scalzone and Franco Piperno, founded the Metropolitan magazine. Two years later, the editorial group of the magazine … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (12) – Oreste Scalzone

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Oreste Scalzone was a leading figure of the Potere Operaio group in Italy, active in the late ’60s early ’70s. In 2016, the Lundimatin collective organised a series of short interviews with him that covered the “rise and fall” of … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (11) – Franco Piperno

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

I look around myself in amazement. Is this really the spirit of the century? Is this really the creative Marxism in which we live? Nothing reveals the immense historical positivity of workers’ self-valorisation more completely than sabotage, this continual activity … Continue reading →

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Italy: Autonomia (10) – Sergio Bologna

Posted on February 21, 2023 by Julius Gavroche

Sergio Bologna, as one of the leading intellectuals of the Italian “operaism” (workerism) Marxist current, has maintained a sympathetic but critical stance towards the social movements of autonomous workers, self-organised students, radical feminists and counter-cultural youth that made up Autonomia … Continue reading →

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