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Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism by Steve Wright

matthew4's review

5.0

Steve Wright has taken on a truly humongous and complicated task in writing this book, which he pulled off almost perfectly. This book goes through the history, practice and thought of Operaismo (AKA political workerism), and its related successor, Autonomist Marxism, and does so in great detail and a well-structured manner. In doing this, Wright brings together a ridiculous number of sources, some so obscure that one wonders even how an expert such as himself located them. This text is a must-read for anyone interested in these ideas and the history of their associated movements in Italy, and it cannot be understated how important it has been for the continued interest in Operaismo by those in the Anglophone world.