Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

Wright, Steve

ISBN 10: 0745316069 / ISBN 13: 9780745316062

Published by Pluto Press, 2002

About this Item

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:9780745316062.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745316069
• ISBN 13: 9780745316062
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Poor
• Weight: 500 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social Sciences

About this title

Synopsis

'The emergence of a new wave of anti-capitalist activism on the streets of Seattle, Prague and Genoa has been accompanied by a growing interest in "autonomist Marxism." Steve Wright's study brilliantly illuminates the history, complexity and internal debates of this tradition . . . A vital, lucid contribution to understanding how the red threads of Marxism are being rewoven into the fabric of twenty-first century radicalism.' Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Cyber-Marx Storming Heaven is the first comprehensive survey of Italian autonomist theory, from its origins in the anti-stalinist and workerist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. Autonomist marxism was a political tendency which privileged themes--self-organisation, construction of identity, grassroots politics, subjects in struggle--which in many ways can be seen as the precursor of today's debates around direct action protest. Emphasising the dynamic nature of class struggle as the distinguishing feature of autonomist thought, Wright explores how its understanding of class politics developed alongside emerging social movements. Offering a critical and historical exploration of the tendency's emergence in postwar Italy, Storming Heaven moves beyond the crisis of traditional analytical frameworks on the left, and assesses the strengths and limitations of autonomist marxism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others.

About the Author

Steve Wright is a Research Fellow in the School of Information Management and Systems, Monash University.