Classe Operaia (Italian: Working Class) was a Marxist monthly magazine which was published in Italy for three years between 1964 and 1967. Its subtitle was "political monthly of the workers in struggle."
| Editor | Toni Negri |
|---|---|
| Categories | Political magazine |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | January 1964 |
| Final issue | March 1967 |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
History and profile
editClasse Operaia was founded by a group of Marxist intellectuals who left another Marxist magazine entitled Quaderni Rossi.[1][2] They planned to be involved in more direct political activity through Classe Operaia.[3] The first issue of Classe Operaia came out in January 1964.[1][4] Asor Rosa and Mario Tronti co-edited the magazine from its start in 1964 to 1966.[5] One of the main contributors was philosopher Antonio Negri.[6]
Target audience of Classe Operaia was the workers,[6] and it was not only a theoretical publication, but also a practice-oriented publication.[7] The magazine's debut editorial, "Lenin in Inghilterra" (Italian: Lenin in England), by Mario Tronti emphasized the need to change the Marxist tradition which included the modification the dominant perspective of the period.[6][8] Such a change was reported to be related to first the working class and its struggles and to the capital and its development.[1] In the same issue an analysis of the technicians of production was presented which has been still used in the workerist theory and practice.[9] Its contributors claimed that the workers' strike at Fiat in Turin was so significant that it created a totally new revolutionary path in the Italian politics.[7] The magazine praised the efforts of Raniero Panzieri to support the workers' movement.[4]
The last issue of Classe Operaia appeared in March 1967.[1] It was succeeded by another magazine Contropiano which was started in 1968.[7]
In 1979 a Milan-based publishing house, Machina Libri, reproduced all issues of Classe Operaia.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Classe Operaia" (in Italian). Conricerca. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
- ^ Fabio Guidali (2021). "Intellectuals at the factory gates: Early Italian operaismo from Raniero Panzieri to Mario Tronti". Labor History. 62 (4): 463. doi:10.1080/0023656X.2021.1955095. S2CID 237713870.
- ^ Valdo Spini (January–April 1972). "The New Left in Italy". Journal of Contemporary History. 7 (1–2): 56. doi:10.1177/002200947200700103. JSTOR 259757.
- ^ a b Steve Wright (2002). Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism. London: Pluto Press. pp. 16, 63. doi:10.2307/j.ctt18fs7pq. ISBN 9781786801173.
- ^ Fabio Guidali (2020). "Culture and political commitment in the nonorthodox Marxist Left: the case of Quaderni piacentini in pre-1968 Italy". History of European Ideas. 46 (6): 869. doi:10.1080/01916599.2020.1756892. S2CID 219036376.
- ^ a b c Andrew Anastasi (2020). "Book review. New Uses for Old Thought: Mario Tronti's Copernican Revolution, 50 Years On". Critical Sociology. 46 (7–8): 1304. doi:10.1177/0896920520911995. S2CID 219079732.
- ^ a b c Adelino Zanini (January 2010). "On the 'Philosophical Foundations' of Italian Workerism: A Conceptual Approach". Historical Materialism. 18 (4): 41. doi:10.1163/156920610X550604.
- ^ Gigi Roggero (June 2010). "Organized Spontaneity: Class Struggle, Workers' Autonomy, and Soviets in Italy". WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society. 13 (2): 204. doi:10.1111/j.1743-4580.2010.00283.x.
- ^ Sergio Bologna (15 December 2014). "Workerism Beyond Fordism: On the Lineage of Italian Workerism". Viewpoint Magazine. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ ""Classe Operaia"". Machina (in Italian). 30 October 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2023.