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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
He does not spend too much time on drawing the links with Operaismo/Workerism as a post- 1956 reaction against the Italian Communist Party (PCI), especially in the theoretical and political work around the time of Quaderni Rossi ('Red Notebooks', 1961-65), Classe Operaia ('Working Class', 1963-66) and the organization Potere Operaio, or the generalization of anti-party calls for self-activity beyond the mass factory to the 'social factory' in the Italian autonomist movements of the 1970s. Some background would have allowed readers to appreciate how the shift from workerism in the 1960s to the autonomia/autonomist movement of the late 1970s, enabled the Italian Left to give 1968 student lifestyle radicalism a Marxist makeover: rather than an individualist, student-centred understanding of the world, workers in everyday life and struggle made the world and provided the life-giving creative vital forces which capitalism sought to be both parasitical upon and to artificially contain. Here sociology was the key discipline of critique: blurring the political/economic divide of Stalinist determinism and rejecting the party's possession of 'objective' understandings of economic bases, structures and contradictions.
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