Mario Tronti’s Workers and Capital is a landmark work in the history of Marxism. A central theme of the work is the concept of autonomy. In this article, Seth Wheeler analyses the shifting understandings of autonomy in the history of the left, and Tronti's unique contribution.
The defence of Christian identity is now central to the far Right’s misogynistic and racist campaigns, and some religious leaders are colluding.
Rethink your reading for the academic year ahead.
Franco “Bifo” Berardi recalls the first time he read Mario Tronti's Workers and Capital in 1967, at seventeen years old.
Protests continue to erupt in Hong Kong, sparked by an extradition bill that would allow the Hong Kong authorities to transfer Hong Kong residents to mainland Chinese courts. Yet, as Ho-fung Hung argues, the roots of the movement go much deeper than the demand for self-determination, and have the potential to have dramatic and systemic consequences for ever-increasing US-Chinese imperial rivalry.
Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir
The recent decision by the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to end Kashmir's special status has once more brought the brutal colonial-style military occupation of the region by the world's largest democracy to global attention. In this, an extract from the book Kashmir: The Case for Freedom, Pankaj Mishra asks why, despite the demands of the population, "does the immense human suffering of Kashmir occupy such an imperceptible place in our moral imagination?"
Fifty years ago, British troops were deployed on Northern Irish streets in the name of keeping the peace. But their actions simply worsened the crisis — fueling a conflict that still casts a shadow today.
Natasha Lennard on whether or not Donald Trump and the movement that has coalesced around him ought to be characterised as fascist and the history of anti-fascist violence and its treatment by the media, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
Raymond Geuss' recent article discussing the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas on the occasion of his 90th birthday sparked a fierce controversy. Here Raymond Geuss responds to his critics and argues that the liberal philosophy of Habermas is fundamentally inadequate in the face of the crises of contemporary capitalism.
What does it mean to write about immortality in relation to communism, Mao Zedong Thought, and people’s experiences of life under the Chinese Communist Party?
An extract from the Introduction to this year’s Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism, the journal of the Raymond Williams Society. Robert Spencer and Christopher Vardy are editors of the special issue on ‘Crisis’ and argue below for urgent critical, theoretical, and political questions to be posed to greater understand how crises are understood and narrativized.