File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9706, message 44


Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 21:43:12 -0400
From: LPA <blissett-AT-unpopular.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: RADICAL NEEDS


>I vaguely recallreading some time ago that Agnes Heller's "The Theory of Need
>In Marx"
>played an important role in Italy's 77 movement although Heller
>repudiated the appropriation.
>
>I read the book several years ago and recently thumbed through my
>highlighting and I think there are some interesting ideas in it, but
>no having read Lucacs, I think much of it escaped me.
>
>Does anyone have more information on all this?
>
>Curtis Price
>
I recall a division between those who orientated themselves around need and
those around desire.

Steve wrote:

>On the level of *journals* (which I'm told is not the same as the real
>world), _Aut Aut_ was one important intellectual forum for this discussion,
>as was _Ombre Rosse_ in a more down-to-earth fashion - but I imagine the
>notion of the "need for communism" sprang from elsewhere, perhaps in the
>proletarian youth circles, or on the margins of Lotta Continua or
>autonomia.

I just recall the name of one paper "I Volsci" which I understood was part
of the desire faction.


ttfn Leutha Blissett

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