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REVOLUTION RETRIEVED: Selected Writings on Marx, Keynes, Capitalist
Crisis and New Social Subjects 1967-1983, trans. Ed Emery and John Merrington, Red Notes, London, 1988
by Toni Negri
ISBN 0 906305 09 8 [Hb]
ISBN 0 906305 10 1 [Pb]
Contrary to popular opinion, this seminal volume is
not out of print.
It can be obtained from the SOAS bookshop at the
following address:
SOAS Bookshop, Thornhaugh
Street, London WC1H 0XG
Tel: 0044 [0] 207 898 4470
E-mail: [email protected]
Revolution Retrieved
is a selection of key political and theoretical
articles by Toni Negri, spanning the period of his involvement in the Italian
revolution Left since the 1960s. These writings are essential for an
understanding of the political outlook of the Italian autonomist movement; a
movement which, during the 1970s, developed one of the most massive and
coherent challenges in Europe to the system of austerity and the role of the
established Left within it. These Negri essays provided a theoretical and
critical reference point for ongoing debates in the development of this new
class politics of communism, based on the liberation of needs and refusal of
the capitalist system of work. They move from the workerism of the 1960s to
the movement of autonomy in the 1970s.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
1
KEYNES AND
THE CAPITALIST THEORY OF THE STATE POST-1929
5
§ 1929 as a Fundamental Moment for a
Periodisation of the Modern State
§ Keynes and the Period 1917-1929:
Understanding the Impact of the October Revolution on the Structure of
Capitalism
§ Keynes the Shift from Politics to
Science (1929: the Working Class within Capital)
§ Capitalist Reconstruction and the
Social State.
MARX ON CYCLE AND CRISIS
43
§ The Problem of Development and the Critical Awareness
of Political Economy
§ Marx's Analysis of Cycle and Development
§ Development and Capitalist Ideologies of the State
§ The Problem of Development and the Alternatives
Offered by Working-Class Science.
CRISIS OF THE PLANNER-STATE: COMMUNISM AND
REVOLUTIONARY
ORGANISATION
91
§ The Antagonism of the Tendency according to Marx:
Present Relevance of his Analysis
§ A Mystified View of the Tendency: the Economists
and the Destruction of the Concept of Capital
§ A Disturbing Consequence: the
"Subjectivists" and the Contradiction Seen as Result, as Catastrophe
§ Abstract Labour as the Revolutionary Subject: the
Basis of the Communist Programme and Proletarian Appropriation
§ The Crisis of the Planner-State: the Big Enterprise
as the Articulation of the Tendency and as the Subject of the Antagonism from
Capital's Point of View
§ Preliminary Reflections on Some Objections Regarding
Method: Tendency, Science and Practice
§ Against Enterprise Command: the Organisation of
Insurrection within the New Composition of the Working Class
§ "Wealth" and "Poverty" of the
Proletariat within the Dialectic of Revolution
§ Our Immediate Task
§ Postscript.
MARX BEYOND MARX: WORKING NOTEBOOKS
ON THE
GRUNDRISSE
..149
§ The Grundrisse, an Open Work: an Introduction.
CRISIS OF THE CRISIS-STATE
...177
ARCHAEOLOGY AND PROJECT: THE MASS WORKER AND THE SOCIAL
WORKER
..199
§ Functions and Limitations of the Concept of the Mass
Worker
§ Capitalist Restructuring: from the Mass Worker to
Social Labour-Power
§ Towards a Critique of the Political Economy of the
Mass Worker: from Social Labour-Power to the Social Worker
§ A Political Conception of Labour-Power: the
Proletariat. Some Problems.
DO YOU REMEMBER REVOLUTION?
..229
§ A Proposal for an Interpretation of
the Italian Movement of the 1970s, by a group of comrades including Toni Negri.
AN INTERVIEW WITH TONI NEGRI
.245
§ The April 7th Trial
§ Criminalising the Autonomia
§ Closing Political Spaces
§ The New Class Layers
§ We Are Readers of Marx.
THE REVOLT AT TRANI PRISON
253
§ A Story of State Brutality
§ Statements and Accounts.
LETTER FROM TONI NEGRI
259
NEGRI BEFORE HIS JUDGES
..261
A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
.269
A READING LIST
...273