From the Factory to the World

From the Factory to the World presents a landmark historical and theoretical reconstruction of Antonio Negri’s political thought.

From Italian Operaismo in the 1960s and 1970s to his global influence with the publication of Empire (2000), and up to his death in 2023, this book examines the development of Negri’s thought. Focusing on his epistemic continuity, it shows how he extended the core tenets of Operaismo – such as the working class’s autonomy and Tronti’s “Copernican revolution” – beyond the Fordist factory into a “global Marxism” for the present. Employing a methodology at the intersection of the history of political thought and intellectual history, it elucidates Negri’s ideas and innovations, engages major critiques, and distinguishes his approach from Western Marxism, post-Marxism, and neo-Marxism, assessing its contributions to critical theory and social movements.

ISBN: 9798903931989

Publication date: August 20, 2027

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 Where It All Began (1959–1967)
 1 What Is Operaismo?
 2 The Dawn: Quaderni Rossi
 3 The Peak: Classe Operaia
 4 The Future: Post-Operaismo?

2 Negri’s Operaismo (1967–1979)
 1 Mass Worker and Social Worker
 2 A Marxist Theory of the State
 3 Critique and Clinic of the State
 4 Negri’s Communism

3 Prison Time (1979–1983)
 1 Marx with Spinoza
 2 A Communist Theory of Time
 3 Dialectic and Subjectivity
 4 In Praise of the Absence of Memory

4 Exile (1983–1997)
 1 The Ontology of Subversion
 2 Revolutionary Roads
 3 Back to the Future

5 From the Factory to the World (1997–2023)
 1 Empire and Imperialism
 2 Biopolitical Production and Immaterial Labour
 3 Multitude and Class

6 The Global Marxism of Antonio Negri: Conclusion
 1 Epistemic Continuity, Conjunctural Discontinuity
 2 Western Marxism, Post-Marxism, Neo-Marxism and Global Marxism
 3 The Communist’s Laughter

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Index