Marx in Movement: Operaismo in Context Negri Paperback Polity Press

Marx in MovementOperaismo in Context\nAuthor(s): Antonio Negri, Ed Emery\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509544240, 978-1509544240\nSynopsis\nThis first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operaismo or autonomist Marxism the tradition to which Negri himself adheres and in which he is a leading figure. The tradition of operaismo emphasizes the role of the worker in capitalism and the primacy of class struggle. Within this framework, Negris key contribution has been to theorize the transition from the mass worker to the social worker that is, to broaden the concept of living labour and liberate it from the theoretical cages that locked it into the factory. It was only by moving beyond the ideology and political practice of the mass worker that the revolutionary character of the Marxist concept of class could be upda.