Antonio Negri - Marx in Movement

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2 Title Page Marx in Movement Operaismo in Context Antonio Negri Translated by Ed Emery polity

3 Copyright Copyright © Antonio Negri, 2022 This English edition © Polity Press, 2022 Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4425-7 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Negri, Antonio, 1933- author. Title: Marx in movement : operaismo in context / Antonio Negri ; translated by Ed Emery. Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “A leading Marxist theorist analyses the changing nature of work”-- Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021008265 (print) | LCCN 2021008266 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509544233 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509544240 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509544257 (epub) | ISBN 9781509547654 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Marxian economics. | Labor. | Socialism. | Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Classification: LCC HB97.5 .N3998 2021 (print) | LCC HB97.5 (ebook) | DDC 335.4/11--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008265 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008266 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

4 Introduction: Marx in operaismo, a Long Road

5 Part I From the Mass Worker to the Social Worker 1 Archaeology and Project: The Mass Worker and the Social Worker1 Functions and limitations of the concept of the mass worker 2 Capitalist restructuring: From the mass worker to social labour power 3 Towards a critique of the political economy of the mass worker: From social labour power to the social worker 4 A political conception of labour power: The proletariat: Some problems Notes 2 On Recent Trends in the Communist Theory of the State: A Critical Review1 The revisionist tradition and the conception of the state 2 Situating the problem: Marxian approaches 3 The current state of theory: The neo-Gramscian variant 4 Restating the problem: From distribution to production 5 Developments in the structural analysis of the state: The organizational mechanisms 6 Developments in the structural analysis of the state: The state in crisis theory 7 An aside: Quibbles, allusions and self-criticism of bourgeois theory 8 Restatements of the problem: State, class struggle and communist transition Notes 3 Labour Value: Crisis and Problems of Reconstruction in Postmodernity Notes

6 Part II Workers and Capital Today 4 Marx and Labour: The Path to Disutopia 1 Act One 2 Intermezzo 3 Act Two 4 The history of an interpretation and of its developments 5 The Capital–Labour Relationship in Cognitive Capitalism 1 From the mass worker to the hegemony of cognitive labour 2 The main characteristics of the new capital–labour relationship 3 The crisis of the threefold formula: The rent economy and the privatization of the common 6 The Organic Composition of Capital Today Notes 7 General Intellect and the Social Individual in Marx’s Grundrisse1 2 3 4 5 6 Notes

7 Part III Polemical Considerations 8 Operai e capitale Fifty Years On: What Has Happened in the Working Class since Marx? What has happened in the working class since Marx? Dear comrades Notes 9 On Tronti’s Autonomy of the Political Notes 10 Post-operaismo? No, Just operaismo!

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4 Copyright Copyright © Antonio Negri, 2022 This English edition © Polity Press, 2022 Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Polity Press 101 Station Landing Suite 300 Medford, MA 02155, USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purpose of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4425-7 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Negri, Antonio, 1933- author. Title: Marx in movement : operaismo in context / Antonio Negri ; translated by Ed Emery. Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “A leading Marxist theorist analyses the changing nature of work”-- Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2021008265 (print) | LCCN 2021008266 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509544233 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509544240 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509544257 (epub) | ISBN 9781509547654 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Marxian economics. | Labor. | Socialism. | Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. Classification: LCC HB97.5 .N3998 2021 (print) | LCC HB97.5 (ebook) | DDC 335.4/11--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008265 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021008266 The publisher has used its best endeavours to ensure that the URLs for external websites referred to in this book are correct and active at the time of going to press. However, the publisher has no responsibility for the websites and can make no guarantee that a site will remain live or that the content is or will remain appropriate. Every effort has been made to trace all copyright holders, but if any have been overlooked the publisher will be pleased to include any necessary credits in any subsequent reprint or edition. For further information on Polity, visit our website: politybooks.com

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