http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com Notes on Mario Tronti Thu, 23 Mar 2006 21:44:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alex: Back at it….I read this article mainly with a focus on Tronti’s views on organization. In this chapter Tronti calls for a “class party,” the “workers’ party” that is characterized as having its base in the factory among industrial wage workers and not based upon electoral support among what ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/03/23/class-and-party-2/ In light of the upcoming discussion of the Strategy of the Refusal - which I hope will provoke more reading and discussion of Tronti generally - I translated this little bit. It’s right at the end of the Strategy of the Refusal. This is a draft, from the Spanish. ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/03/11/short-excerpt-from-strategy-of-the-refusal/ Class and Party By Mario Tronti Translated (rough draft) March 2006 by Alex Diceanu, from the French translation by Yann Moulier (with the assistance of G. Bezza) published in 1977. The original Italian article was written in 1964. It was included in Workers and Capital (1st ed. 1966) under the title ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/03/03/class-and-party-3/ Ciao compagni, Forse questo e’ something you’ll be interested in - a proposal to read some Tronti colletivamente. Che bell’idea! un abraccio, Nate http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/03/01/per-tutti-le-letrici/ Alex: I really enjoyed this article particularly Tronti’s critique of representation. Very busy so some of these notes are sloppy and I mostly paraphrase rather than quote. This admittedly is not ideal so please, without fear for hurt feelings, do not hesitate to point out if something I’ve written is out ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/02/21/1905-in-italy-2/ Alex: A brief summary of the argument: The new strategy: a total refusal of capitalist society The old tactics - the union struggle: in the factory, against the boss, blocking of production, the general strike. Block any attempts at stabilizing the contemporary crisis of Italian capitalism (itself brought about by the wage demands ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/02/10/old-tactics-for-a-new-strategy-2/ Alex: In the interests of getting back to the readings I have decided for now to put aside “Social Capital” which I have read several times but need to go over it again since I’m finding it a very tough read. I am paying for not having read more Marx. ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/02/07/lenin-in-england-2/ ERIC: Before reading these Tronti chapters, I’d assumed that he was a curio, a once-important figure who had been left behind by history and his successors. I imagined his relationship to autonomism/poststructuralism as similar to Lukacs’s relationship to the Frankfurters: interesting for the directions he hinted at, but completely surpassed by ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/01/31/lenin-in-england-3/ Notes: Factory and Society I think Tronti’s main argument in this article is that the revolution begins in the factory given by the formula: factory => society => State. The article begins with a discussion of capitalist production a la Marx: production as work process and process of valorization; work for use-value ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/01/20/notes-factory-and-society2/ Nate: Ch7. “Class and party” This chapter was originally published as an article in Classe Operaia vol1, December 1964. What was Tronti doing, what was he involved in during the time he was writing and publishing these articles? “The investigation of a new strategy of class struggle in advanced capitalism is the ... http://leggiamotronti.blogsome.com/2006/01/15/class-and-party/