The Weapon of Organization by Tronti Mario; Anastasi Andrew;

Author:Tronti, Mario; Anastasi, Andrew;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Common Notions
Published: 2020-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

2. The “exiles” [fuoriusciti] were militants who had been forced out of or left the PCI.

3. This refers to the final meeting of Quaderni Rossi; see the note above.

10

A Replacement of Leadership

(Autumn 1963)

These notes were written in preparation for a talk likely delivered in September or October 1963 to comrades involved in the development of the newspaper Classe Operaia. They demonstrate that before the first issue would be published, Tronti already conceived of two phases for project, moving from struggle toward organization.

End of Quaderni Rossi

Political judgment concerning Quaderni Rossi and Panzieri

(general areas of Classe Operaia)1

Our attitude / two phases—two years

  the last year

    results: Quaderni Rossi 3

    C[ronache] O[peraie] 1

the political space for a working-class left was left open

a new phase of work centered on political intervention is opening

specific areas of Classe Operaia

nuclei of workers to be organized

to organize the struggle or

to organize the organization?

the current phase is still that of the organization of the struggle/new forms of working-class struggles

to move in stages toward the second objective

the newspaper today must represent this transitional moment

it cannot include decisive rallying cries aiming toward the

new organization

it must pose the political premises for this

a political leap must be taken at a certain point in order to

move to a subsequent phase.

to prepare the objective conditions for this leap to the new organization.

the conditions are:

1) generalization of specific forms of working-class

struggle

anticapitalist and antibureaucratic

at the same time

2) political crisis and vertical collapse of the old organizations,

at the national political level

working class and workers’ movement

particular attention to this relation

to specify the current attitude of the class toward the

movement

ambiguous attitude, full of political duplicity, and cautious

and slow attrition.

class action to make the parties explode

then, correct recomposition of the relation.

at the political level this is all the problem of the party is.

it is only at the theoretical level that it subsists as a problem.

unity-distinction between theory and politics

primacy of politics.

replacement of leadership

a draft of working-class organizers

Bolshevik “center”

1. In these notes, Tronti does not enclose the words classe operaia inside quotation marks as he does Quaderni Rossi, but from context we might infer that the “generic” and “specific areas” mentioned here pertain to that new project, rather than to the working class “itself.”

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