[Minorcompositions] Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 11: Italian Operaismo with Gigi Roggero

[Minor Compositions]

*Minor Compositions Podcast Episode 11: Italian Operaismo with Gigi Roggero*
https://fireflyfrequencies.org/podcasts/minor-compositions

This episode of the Minor Compositions podcast is recorded as part of 
the Ultradependent Public School exhibition at BAK 
(https://www.bakonline.org/program-item/ultradependent-public-school-2/)

For this episode we are talking with Gigi Roggero about his book 
/Italian Operaismo: Genealogy, History, Method/. In this conversation we 
cover a range of topics including the birth and development of operaismo 
as a political tendency, the concepts of class composition and political 
formation, and rethinking how we approach and re-activate radical 
histories in the present.

“Italian Operaismo provides a clear overview of the central moments in 
that tendency's development: from the Italian labor movement's crisis of 
direction in the 1950s, the encounter with the “new forces” within the 
working class at FIAT and elsewhere in the early 1960s, and the 
political journals Quaderni rossi and Classe operaia, to the experience 
of Potere Operaio and other organizations a decade later. Roggero 
provides a rereading of operaismo that is both salutary and provocative, 
one that stresses above all the role within it of subjectivity and 
political engagement, demonstrating the continued relevance of its 
subversive method as a tool for reworking the categories of radical and 
revolutionary thought.

Opening / outro music: The Potere Operaio Anthem, as sung by Oreste 
Scalzone and Comrades
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