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January 13, 2006

Marx, Yesterday and Today (2)

Filed under: Notes

Alex:

“If it is true that it is on the social base of the most developed capitalism where the decisive confrontation must take place…”

Not quite sure why this is indeed true. It seems that a lot of the Italian autonomist literature I have read to date make the argument, mainly implicitly, that it is capitalism’s most advanced stages that are the appropriate terrain of struggle. An explanation for this tendency would be helpful. I am wondering/concerned about the consequences of this thinking for groups such as peasants and industrial workers today that, it can be argued, are not the workers of capitalism “most advanced” form (i.e. high-technology capitalism)
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