Storming Heaven

Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism

By: Steve Wright, Harry Cleaver (Foreword by), Riccardo Bellofiore (Afterword by), Massimiliano Tomba (Afterword by)

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Paperback | 20 July 2017 | Edition Number 2

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304 Pages

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Storming Heaven is the first comprehensive survey of Italian autonomist theory, from its origins in the anti-Stalinist and workerist left of the 1950s to its heyday twenty years later. The themes of autonomist Marxism include the refusal of work, self-organisation, an openness to non-militarised political violence, mass illegality and the extension of revolutionary agency, which are all relevant trends today. Emphasising the dynamic nature of class composition and struggle as the distinguishing feature of autonomist thought, Steve Wright documents how its understanding of class politics developed alongside emerging social movements. Offering a critical and historical exploration of the tendency's trajectory in postwar Italy, Storming Heaven moves beyond the crisis of traditional analytical frameworks on the left, and assesses the strengths and limitations of Italian autonomist Marxism as first developed by Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Sergio Bologna and others. This edition includes a substantial new afterword looking at the debates around operaismo and Autonomia since the book originally appeared in 2002.

Industry Reviews

'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

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