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Marx in Movement
Operaismo in Context
Antonio Negri
Translated by Ed Emery
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Copyright © Antonio Negri, 2022
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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.
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Introduction Marx in operaismo, a Long Road
In operaismo [workerism],* the reading of Marx is done from a particular viewpoint, which is that of the class struggle, and this means that such a reading takes as its starting point the cognitive interest of communist militants involved in the class struggle. Marx is, as it were, an open book from which processes of inquiry [inchiesta], theoretical research and political intervention by communists can draw their tools, which change with the passing of time in the long continuity of revolutionary