How Much Is Haircut At Penneys

The NEP's "Working Class"

For a critique operaismo Tronto-negro

Raffaele Sbarra (1980)

[ This essay was originally published in the journal " Class", n. 17 June 1980 and was later on ribubblicato n.8 of "Vis-a-Vis - Papers for the class independence" , 2000. On the same theme, see also Claudio Albertani, Empire and its pitfalls. The baffling parable operaismo Italian : Part I and Part II ]

The left has never seriously considered arrays trontismo and philosophical ideology of those comrades who, after the break with the "Quaderni Rossi , gathered around the magazine" Working Class ": This is a fact. This, of course, a mistake, because the ideology operaista these comrades in the movement has spread readings mystifying realities of political behavior and never fully adapted to the actual levels delle lotte. Non abbiamo mai preso seriamente e criticamente in considerazione la natura idealistica, o meglio gentiliana, del pensiero di Tronti; non abbiamo sottolineato in modo sufficientemente chiaro la negatività di quella assolutizzazione dell’idea di Soggettività che ha introdotto e seguita a introdurre nel movimento reale guasti considerevoli [ Nota : Una cosa però va detta con chiarezza: che di fronte all’oggettivismo passivizzante della tradizione ideologica terzointernazionalista e togliattiana, questi compagni, anche se nella forma idealizzata, posero con forza il problema del primato della soggettività collettiva e dei rapporti di produzione, mostrando la possibilità di un altro ascolto della realtà social (the new class composition, the mass-worker, the ratio of manufacturing companies, the new features of capitalist development, the politics of wage struggles, the fight against the "work", the need for communication etc.).. ]. The same break with Panzieri, can be fully explained only if we consider the nature of the thought of idealistic actualistic Tronti. On the other hand the coherence and continuity of thought to this author, no contradiction between the theory of "rude pagan race" and that the "autonomy of politics", can emerge in all their size, only if the analysis able to cover this critically theoretical way. Continuity and consistency which, in turn, makes comprehensible the same story of "the working class ": exit before, the Genovese group, breaking, later, the band's demise, those closest comrades at positions Toni Negri. In this way can be explained with sufficient clarity, rejection, within the same idealistic conception of the working class of mediations that Tronti in order to master the new realities of the "ebb" and give a subjective value to what subject was not, as was the introduction in his political discourse.

Many comrades are still convinced that the thesis contained in workers and capitalists are scientifically valid and truly revolutionary, and in opposition to this, not without embarrassment, to the current positions of Tronto. We, on the contrary, we think that if you really want to build a party completely down into the current class composition - a party-tool I have taken over the critique of politics, the new behaviors and needs collective subjects - and, theoretically, you should seriously deal with the ideology of the work of " working class."

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