Fascinating documentary of Antonio Negri, other parts are listed on the side panel on youtube. It is English subtitles
Operaismo Reading Group Manchester
All Welcome!
Fortnightly sessions exploring dissident marxist theory and practice from ’60s/’70s Italy – the rowdy sibling of France’s May ‘68.
This reading group will be takling place in Manchester in the UK. If you get inspired and do something similair elsewhere then let us know.
The First session will be on Tuesday 12th February – room TBC.
Below is an outline of the kind of things we’ll be reading (Maybe not all of it and certainyl not too quickly!).
Check this tumblr soon for more details as to the room and the first reading!
The Curtain Rises: Introduction to Italy in the 1960’s and 1970’s
* When two sevens clash: punk and autonomia – Free Association
* The Italian background – Ernest Dowson
* Introduction to the revolutionary left in Italy – Jim Kaplan
* The Renascence of Operaismo – Wildcat
* Storming Heaven chapter 1 – Steve Wright
The Copernican Inversion: Struggle is the Motor
* Lenin in England – Mario Tronti
* The Capitalist Use of Machinery – Raniero Panzieri
* Socialist Uses of Workers’ Inquiry – Raniero Panzieri
* Domination and Sabotage – Antonio Negri
The Refusal of Work
* The Strategy of Refusal – Mario Tronti.
* The Refusal of Work – Porto Maghera Workers.
* The Struggle Against Labor – Mario Tronti
The Social Factory: New subjects and the rise of Post-Fordism
* Women and the Subversion of Community – Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
* Theses on the Mass Worker and Social Capital – Silvia Federici and Mario Montano
* (1982) Archaelogy and Project: The Mass Worker and the Social Worker – Antonio Negri
The State as Planner and the Rise of the Crisis State
* (1967)Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State (in L/D and Revolution Retrieved) – Antonio Negri
* Crisis of the Planner-State: Communism and Revolutionary Organization (in Books for Burning) – Antonio Negri
* Surplus Value and Planning – Raniero Panzieri
Class and Party
* Tribe of Moles – Sergio Bologna
* Worker’s Party Against Work – Antonio Negri
* Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers’ Council Movement – Sergio Bologna.
The Legacy of Operaismo
* Defeat at Fiat – Marco Revelli
* Our Operaismo – Mario Tronti
* On Italian Workerism – Riccardo Bellofiore & Massimiliano Tomba
* Between Panzieri and Negri: Mario Tronti and the workerism of the 1960s and 1970s – Riccardo Bellofiore
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