.... Following the theoretical analyses developed by the Italian school of Marxist workerism ( operaismo ), it is claimed that the increasing “socialization” of capital in the postwar period did not mark its waning or disappearance but rather a widespread effort to absorb or “subsume” the entire society in its...

... of the Italian workerist tradition (operaismo) is that capitalism always maps its developments on the struggles and resistances of the workers. Crucially, today there exists a commonality of work that is characterized by the aspects of imma- teriality, cognitivity, and communication, which nowadays...

... Gramsci’s legacy, called workerism [operaismo].1 The most prominent fig- ure of this tradition, at least from the viewpoint of English translations, is Anto- 1 Not all of it, however: Giorgio Agamben’s work on what he calls “bare life” and the “state of exception” (see...

... Workers and Capital was a foundational text for the Italian heterodox Marxist tradition that came to be known as operaismo (workerism). The essays contained in this book were originally published in the journal Quad- erni rossi (Red Notebooks), which was dedicated...