{"product_id":"the-weapon-of-organization-mario-trontis-political-revolution-in-marxism-9781942173229","title":"The Weapon of Organization: Mario Tronti's Political Revolution in Marxism","description":"\u003cp\u003eMario Tronti was the principal theorist of the radical political movement of the 1960s known in Italy as \u003cem\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/em\u003e and in the Anglophone world as Italian workerism, a current which went on to inform the development of autonomist Marxism. His \"Copernican revolution\"--the proposal that working class struggles against exploitation propel capitalist development, which can only be understood as a reaction that seeks to harness this antagonism--has inspired dissident leftists around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTronti's influence as a theorist thus already reaches far beyond Italy to activists and writers working in different sectors on different problems historically and geographically. While his imposing and acclaimed \u003cem\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/em\u003e has only recently appeared in English translation, Tronti has influenced many of the most creative social and political theorists of our time. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAntonio Negri and Michael Hardt have long acknowledged the influence of Tronti on their thinking, drawing especially on his inversion of strategy and tactics in their influential collaborations. Tronti's work in the 1960s also furnished important building blocks for a Marxist feminist critique of unwaged labor--as developed by Mariarosa dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, and many others working on social reproduction theory--as Tronti showed how capitalist control extends beyond the factory to all of society. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have echoed Tronti's calls for a radical antagonism \"within and against\" institutions and the state. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weapon of Organization\u003c\/em\u003e is a crucial introduction to Tronti, presenting a variety of never-before-translated texts--personal letters, public talks, published articles. With an incisive and provocative introduction that situates Tronti and highlights his relevance to contemporary political struggle, Anastasi translates and restores key writing from the birth of Italian \u003cem\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/em\u003e--days of street fighting and theorizing for a renewed age of revolution.Tronti's goal, Anastasi writes, was not to become a revered thinker but to participate in the destruction of capitalist society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMario Tronti is a philosopher and politician. In the 1960s he was among the founders of \u003cem\u003eoperaismo \u003c\/em\u003e(Italian \"workerism\"), a heterodox school of Marxist thought, and later he played a leading role in the Italian Communist Party. He has been a newspaper editor, university professor, president of the Centro per la Riforma dello Stato, and Senator of the Italian Republic. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eWorkers and Capital \u003c\/em\u003eand many anthologized essays as well as other books in Italian.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAndrew Anastasi is a member of the \u003cem\u003eViewpoint Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e editorial collective and a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Critical Theory at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the translator of numerous works from Italian as well as the editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Young Mario Tronti\u003c\/em\u003e, a dossier on the early philosophical and political development of one of the founders of Italian \u003cem\u003eoperaismo \u003c\/em\u003e. His doctoral research investigates relations between New Left movement organizations and the U.S. capitalist state during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on the War on Poverty and its afterlives. Anastasi has worked in public high schools and colleges for the past decade and currently teaches courses in political sociology, social movements, and social theory at Queens College, City University of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874504708370,"sku":"9781942173229","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_003e27be-bfa3-415c-9932-b5d60183d64b.jpg?v=1737996102","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-weapon-of-organization-mario-trontis-political-revolution-in-marxism-9781942173229","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}