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Italy: Autonomia (16) – Feminism: Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Italy: Autonomia (9) – Antonio Negri
Today the process of constituting class independence is first and foremost a process of separation. … I am emphasising this forced separation in order to clarify the overall meaninglessness of a capitalist world within which I find myself constituted in … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (8) – Mario Tronti
Workers’ struggles determine the course of capitalist development; but capitalist development will use those struggles for its own ends if no organized revolutionary process opens up, capable of changing that balance of forces. Mario Tronti In an eloquent, incisive and … Continue reading
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Italy: Autonomia (17) – Feminism: Leopoldina Fortunati
A personal reflection on the feminist movement within Italy’s Autonomia. Learning to struggle: my story between workerism and feminism When I encountered workerism, I was 19 years old. I was a grassroots militant of the students’ movement from the University … Continue reading →