Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 257 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0745316077
,
0745316069
,
1849640831
,
9780745316079
,
9781849640831
Content:
Storming Heaven is the first comprehensive survey of Italian autonomist theory, from its origins in the anti-stalinist and workerist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. Autonomist marxism was a political tendency which privileged themes--self-organisation, construction of identity, grassroots politics, subjects in struggle--which in many ways can be seen as the precursor of today's debates around direct action protest. Emphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of autonomist thought, Wright explores how its understanding of class politics developed alongside emerging social movements. Offering a critical and historical exploration of the tendency's emergence in postwar Italy, Storming Heaven moves beyond the crisis of traditional analytical frameworks on the left, and assesses the strengths and limitations of autonomist marxism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others
Content:
Weathering the 1950s -- Quaderni Rossi and the workers' enquiry -- Classe Operaia -- New subjects -- The creeping may -- Potere Operaio -- Toni Negri and the Operaio Sociale -- The historiography of the mass worker -- The collapse of workerism -- Conclusion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-248) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wright, Steve, 1958- Storming heaven London ; Sterling, Va : Pluto Press, 2002
Language:
English
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