Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 09:03:18 -0400
From: Alessandro Coricelli <alessandro.coricelli-AT-rcn.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Negri and Lenin



On Saturday, August 4, 2001, at 08:18 AM, pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au wrote:

> I agree with Alessandro that Negri's relationship to Lenin and leninism
> is complex. I also agree with Matteo that this relationship changed in
> significant ways sometime after 1981 or so.
>
> But it is not at all difficult to find Negri's ringing endorsement of
> some form of leninist party throughout the second half of the seventies
> - especially in 1977.
>
> Often it is less the structure than the function of the leninist party
> that is endorsed - not as a 'representative' of the working class,
> certainly. But rather as a specialised function of attack upon capital,
> one that the ceto politico must appropriate if the mass movement is to
> be able to advance.

ok, that's the key. I perfectly recall that period, but I would put it 
"before" 1977(I mean the movement of '77, which changed everything).
I would call that(the problem of the Party) a recurrent "temptation". 
There were even talks, mostly in Rome(by people "from" Rome). 
Particularly with "Il Manifesto"(at that time PdUP, Partito di Unita' 
Proletaria). But again, '77 changed all that.
Theoretically, the debate has always been about "transition". And Negri 
never liked that too much. Another set of issues, more difficult to 
understand because they affect a more "delicate" field, it was the 
formation of the various groups that had chosen, in different forms, 
"clandestinita'". There was another "temptation"(a "centralized" one).
Again with the theoretical basis of the problem. Among "operaisti" there 
has been a cyclical fluctuation(see the choice of Tronti, Asor Rosa and 
Cacciari) between "Autonomy"(without adjective) an the "Autonomy of the 
Political"(from which the temptation of the Party comes from). But now 
all of this is  gone.

ciao,
alessandro

p.s. thanks for the piece from Proletari e Stato.




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