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matthew4's review against another edition
3.0
In this text, Tiqqun critique the politics of May '68, operaismo, and the workers' movement in general, whilst appraising and reimagining autonomia and the movement of '77 in Italy. Whilst I found it quite interesting, particularly with its integration into a framework based upon a 'science of apparatuses', and agreed with a large number of its critiques of May '68 and the 'official' workers' movement, I did think the text gave an unfair historical representation of operaismo, and was flawed in its analytical basis in that we have gone past a point in history in which the working-class is a revolutionary subjectivity. Fundamentally, I believe that Tiqqun fail to properly locate an ultra-left politics within a concrete understanding of the wage-relation and the domination of commodity exchange within our society, and therefore fail to account for the importance of the refusal of work as a strategy for revolutionary transformation. Nonetheless though, still an enjoyable and interesting read!
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