Ideologies / Autonomist / Mario Tronti
§ The minds · 1931–2023 · Italy · Theorist
Mario Tronti
Workers and capital
Labour comes first, not capital.
Economic−58
SocialistMarket
Governance−72
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+54
TraditionalProgressive
The founder of Italian 'operaismo' (workerism), whose 'Workers and Capital' inverted Marxism to make working-class struggle the prime mover — the theoretical headwater of autonomism.
social
Progressive of the New Left.
economic
Workers' struggle, not capital, drives history — the 'Copernican turn.'
governance
Workers' autonomy from party and union bureaucracy.
Notable for
- Founded operaismo
- 'Workers and Capital'
- The 'Copernican turn'
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