POLI 364 Lecture : POLI 364 - Lectures (Mar 27 & 29)

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Autonomism marks the disillusion of class as a sociological category. It is a theory of capital without class. Classical marxism relied on a sociologically constituted working class. Thus, the revolutionary agent is tied to a specific time and location. Parallel to that is a structural definition: whoever is exploited by capital constitutes the working class. This is paired with the notion of capitalism as a constantly changing, constantly revolutionary system. Thus, this then necessarily implies that the constitution of the working class is constantly changing as well -> contradiction. The autonomists argue that everyone is a member of the working class; as a result, class ceased to become an important concept in new radical political thought. Holloway: we all do, and as our doing contributes to propping up capitalism, we are all the exploited. This upends the prior political projects of radical thought. The emancipation of the working class cannot be the taking power of the working class.

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