Book Presentation & Release: Storming Heaven 2nd Ed
När: 2018-01-11 19:00
Var: India Däck, St Algatan 3, Lund
Storming Heaven - Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism finally has a second edition! Italian autonomist Marxism is a radical way to understand Marx, away from political parties and state socialism.
It is a concrete way of understanding conflict in everyday life with a focus on the autonomous self-activity of the working class with an understanding that the class is gendered and racialized. This theory was developed by Italian comrades who were part of the most inspiring mass struggle of Europe, the 1960's and 1970's in Italy where the working class was on the verge of a revolution against the wishes of the Italian Communist Party.
We will give a brief presentation on the history and legacy of autonomous Marxism and discuss what we can develop from the 1970's in Italy to our situation today and then we will sell the newly released 2nd edition of the book! Of course, there will be fika.
This is how the book is presented by the publishers:
"Storming Heaven is the only book which looks at Italian workerist theory and practice, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. It focuses on the theme of workerism, or 'operaismo', which includes the refusal of work, class self-organisation, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, of of which are still practiced today by workers across the world.
Emphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of workerist thought, Storming Heaven reveals how this form of radical politics developed alongside emerging social movements to great effect. It assesses the strengths and limitations of workerism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others.
This edition includes a new chapter looking at the debates around operaismo and Autonomia since the book originally appeared in 2002, and is updated with a new foreword and afterword."
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