Autonomist Marxism
Two critiques: "Empire" and "new imperialism"
Submitted on 12 January, 2008 - 09:22
Download this article (pdf). It discusses the issues round “globalisation” by way of two critiques, of Negri-Hardt and of the “new imperialism” theory of John Rees, Alex Callinicos and other writers associated with the British SWP.
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Anarchism today: PowerPoint presentation
Submitted on 6 January, 2008 - 09:33
Introducing some of the strands in anarchist thinking today: download here (4.3MB). This is not meant to be "self-sufficient", but rather to help with discussing the ideas.
An interview with Beverly Silver
Submitted on 21 September, 2005 - 21:04
An interview with Beverly Silver about her book Forces Of Labor, which we studied in the Brisbane Workers' Liberty study group of 2005, and which we will be studying at the AWL day schools in London and Sheffield on 1 October 2005.
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Trotskyism, workerism and autonomism in Italy
Submitted on 11 January, 2004 - 21:47
A postscript to my review of Steve Wright's Storming Heaven and my article on Autonomist Marxism.
Other material on this site:
Review of Negri and Hardt's "Empire"
Autonomism, workerism, and Trotskyism in Italy;
Review of Steve Wright's book on the history of autonomism in the 1960s and 70s.
On other sites:
A compact summary of autonomism, in the form of an interview with the American autonomist Harry Cleaver by Massimo De Angelis: www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/facstaff/Cleaver/InterviewwithHarryCleaver.html.
Other texts, including the historic ones like Mario Tronti's "Lenin in England": www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/index.html.
Autonomist Marxism: three themes, three critiques
Submitted on 27 December, 2003 - 12:52
A critical survey of "autonomist" Marxism, from its origins in Italian "operaismo" in the 1960s through to the writings today of Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt.
Other material on this site:
Review of Negri and Hardt's "Empire"
Autonomism, workerism, and Trotskyism in Italy;
Review of Steve Wright's book on the history of autonomism in the 1960s and 70s.
On other sites:
A compact summary of autonomism, in the form of an interview with the American autonomist Harry Cleaver by Massimo De Angelis: www.eco.utexas.edu/Homepages/facstaff/Cleaver/InterviewwithHarryCleaver.html.
Other texts, including the historic ones like Mario Tronti's "Lenin in England": www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/index.html.
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Storming heaven: class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist Marxism
Submitted on 26 December, 2003 - 00:00
Martin Thomas reviews Storming Heaven: class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism, by Steve Wright. Pluto Press.
"Autonomist" Marxism is influential in the new anti-capitalist generation. Quite what it means is hard to tell from its best-selling books, like Toni Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire, or even the practice of its avowed partisans, like Italy's Disobedienti. Steve Wright's book Storming Heaven: class composition and struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism (Pluto Press) - readable, critical, but sympathetic - is much more down to earth, tracing the origins of "autonomism" from the "workerist" tradition in Italian Marxism in the 1960s.
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Forum on "autonomist Marxism"
Submitted on 3 December, 2003 - 23:06
Wednesday 17 December, 7.30pm. Marx, Negri and working-class autonomy: a discussion of "autonomist" Marxism and its relevance in the new anti-capitalist movements of today. London AWL forum with Massimo De Angelis and Martin Thomas. Also sponsored by London Social Forum.
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