Mario Tronti 1931 – 2023
Mario Tronti (1931 – 2023) was an Italian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Marxism and Political Philosophy.
Mario Tronti was an Italian Marxist political philosopher, the founding theorist of operaismo or workerism, and a senator of the Italian Republic. His Workers and Capital reversed the classical Marxist priority by arguing that the working class, not capital, is the constitutive agent of capitalist development, since capital must always run after the struggles by which living labor refuses to be absorbed. His later The Political and We Operaists extended this Copernican thesis into a sustained reflection on twentieth-century revolutionary politics and on the autonomy of the political within Marxist thought.
Key facts
- Nationality
- Italian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Marxism, Political Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Mario Tronti:
“Working-class struggle is what moves capital, not the other way around.”
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Attributed to Mario Tronti:
“Marxism without the autonomy of the working class is bourgeois social science.”
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Attributed to Mario Tronti:
“The political is not the application of theory; it is the moment in which thought becomes action.”
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Attributed to Mario Tronti:
“Defeat is the school in which revolutionaries learn to think.”
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Attributed to Mario Tronti:
“We must read capital from the standpoint of labor, not labor from the standpoint of capital.”
Frequently asked about Mario Tronti
- When did Mario Tronti live?
- Mario Tronti was born in 1931 and died in 2023.
- Where was Mario Tronti from?
- Mario Tronti was an Italian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
- What philosophical movements is Mario Tronti associated with?
- Mario Tronti was associated with Marxism and Political Philosophy.
- What was Mario Tronti known for?
- Mario Tronti was an Italian Marxist political philosopher, the founding theorist of operaismo or workerism, and a senator of the Italian Republic.
- How many quotes are attributed to Mario Tronti?
- There are 5 attributed quotations from Mario Tronti in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.