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Mario Tronti Quotes on Politics

Mario Tronti was an Italian Marxist political philosopher, the founding theorist of operaismo or workerism, and a senator of the Italian Republic. This page collects quotes attributed to Mario Tronti on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Mario Tronti:

    “Working-class struggle is what moves capital, not the other way around.”

  • Attributed to Mario Tronti:

    “Marxism without the autonomy of the working class is bourgeois social science.”

  • Attributed to Mario Tronti:

    “The political is not the application of theory; it is the moment in which thought becomes action.”

  • Attributed to Mario Tronti:

    “Defeat is the school in which revolutionaries learn to think.”

  • Attributed to Mario Tronti:

    “We must read capital from the standpoint of labor, not labor from the standpoint of capital.”