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Mario Tronti: “I am defeated”
For Mario Tronti, from Communists in situ; Italian original / Mar 3rd, 2015 Translated by Rees Nicolas Under the soles of his shoes, you can still recognise the dirt of history. “This is all that remains. A mix of straw and shit … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, Mario Tronti, marxism
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Mario Tronti: “In art as in politics there is nothing other than struggle”
For Mario Tronti (from Blackout) … Can you really be outside? This is the question I asked Mario the last time we talked (Francesco Matarrese | Greenberg and Tronti: Being Really Outside?). Today, the eighth of January, his important, extraordinary answer arrived. Now … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Art and Revolution, autonomism, Mario Tronti, marxism
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For Mario Tronti (1931-2023)
For Mario Tronti, who died this last August 7th, we share a short text by Diego Sztulwark and Mario Tronti’s Thesis on Benjamin. Today Mario Tronti passed away. His 92 years were many, but he will surely remain the author … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, autonomism, italy, Mario Tronti, marxism
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Gáspár Miklós Tamás: Between Rousseau and Marx
… what happens if one seriously tries to complete Marx’s project of developing, as he put it in an early essay, a “ruthless critique of everything that exists.” The likely result is a picture of the world so relentlessly bleak … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, Gáspár Miklós Tamás, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, marxism, revolution
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For Gáspár Miklós Tamás (1948-2023)
The Romanian-born Hungarian philosopher and political activist Gáspár Miklos Tamás died this last January 15th. In three posts, we celebrate his discernment, his wisdom and his ethical-political engagements, regardless of whatever differences we may have with his work. Below, a … Continue reading
Staughton Lynd: Thinking history, doing politics, from below
What we are about is a new set of values, the practice of solidarity. Capitalism developed within feudalism as the practice of the idea of contract. What was imagined was a society in which free and equal members of civil … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, IWW, labour, marxism, Staughton Lynd, united states
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The Legacy of the St. Imier Congress
The St. Imier Congress of 1872 was one of the defining moments of the anarchist movement within the the broader tradition of European socialism. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the Congress and a gathering has been called for … Continue reading
Remembering Howard Zinn
My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-militarism, Howard Zinn, marxism, revolution
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Anarchism: Giving form to autonomy
This post was born of an exchange of letters between John Holloway and Michael Hardt that focused on the issue of “anti-capitalist social movements” and their “organisation” and “institutionalisation”. The letters date from 2011, but their subject remains contemporary, as … Continue reading
Mario Tronti: On destituent power
For Mario Tronti, from the Ill Will collective (22/05/2022) … In his influential 2008 interview with Adriano Vinale, Mario Tronti provides some of the earliest speculations on the possibility of a destituent power. Below we present the first English edition … Continue reading →