Operaismo

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Operaismo (Italian for "workerism") was a heterodox Marxist political and theoretical tendency that emerged in Italy in the early 1960s. Its foundational insight, a "Copernican revolution" in Marxist thought, was to invert the traditional relationship between capital and labour, positing that the struggles of the working class were the primary driving force of capitalist development. Capital, in this view, does not develop along its own internal laws but is forced to restructure and innovate in response to working-class antagonism. Originating from dissident circles within the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during Italy's post-war "economic miracle", operaismo's key thinkers included Raniero Panzieri, Mario Tronti, Antonio Negri, Sergio Bologna, and Romano Alquati. Their analysis was initially developed in journals such as Quaderni Rossi (1961–1965) and Classe Operaia (1964–1967). The central analytical category of operaismo was "class composition", which...

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