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Storming Heaven

Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

By (author) Steve Wright
Foreword by Harry Cleaver
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Pluto Press, London, United Kingdom
Published: 20th Jul 2017
Dimensions: w 133mm h 237mm d 15mm
Weight: 385g
ISBN-10: 0745399908
ISBN-13: 9780745399904
Barcode No: 9780745399904
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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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'The best account in English of the developments of autonomous politics in Italy in the 1960s and '70s' -- Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Empire 'As the most wide-ranging, historically nuanced and theoretically incisive treatment of the contested tradition of operaismo, Wright's book is an indispensable contribution to the study, critique or revitalisation of Italy's foremost contribution to Marxian heterodoxy' -- Alberto Toscano Goldsmiths, University of London '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-Proletariat and Cyber-Marx