Sandro Mezzadra

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Bernard E. Harcourt | Marx’s Grundrisse and Toni Negri’s Marx Beyond Marx: Introduction to Marx 9/13

The *Grundrisse*, a hefty volume running about a thousand pages long, has become the urtext for those readers of Marx who have sought to infuse the more scientific and economistic later Marx of the Capital with the earlier philosophical, political, and social theoretic Marx of the 1840s. For these readers, it serves as the final bridge to *Capital.* [Continue reading here…]

Michael Hardt & Sandro Mezzadra | On Marx’s *Grundrisse* and Toni Negri’s *Marx Beyond Marx*

For Toni Negri, Marx’s Grundrisse allowed him to address a double crisis of Marxism: a crisis of “official” Marxism, represented in Italy primarily by the theoreticians of the Italian Communist Party and the interpretations of Capital; and a crisis of the revolutionary workers movement and the entire set of liberation movements active at the time. [Continue reading here…]