The Italian revolutionary movement is another important moment to study. From the early 1960s, to the hot autumn of 1969, to the ‘Autonomia‘ of the 1970s the struggle raged in Italy. This was part of the larger wave of working class revolt sweeping across the Europe in Paris 1968, leading to the breakup of the Keynesian economic consensus.
For the Italian ‘Workerists‘ and later ‘Autonomia‘, this was a time of great experimentation and lively working class social movements. These movements rocked the foundations of Italian society. The theoretical and practical experiments provide a framework for some of the challenges we face, in a time of class recomposition and ruling class attack. The insights they provide are deeply valuable to all Libertarian Communists:
States-of-emergency Robert Lumley
Autonomia – Post-Political Politics (reduced)
Wright S – Storming Heaven – Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism OCR
Antonio Negri – Books For Burning
Paulo Virno – Grammar of the Multitude
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Multitude
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Commonwealth
George Caffentzis – In Letters of Blood and Fire
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Midnight Notes Collective – Promissory Notes 2009
John Holloway- Change the world without taking power
John Holloway – Crack Capitalism
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Franco ”Bifo” Berardi – The Soul at Work From Alienation to Autonomy