This is the question provocatively asked in a recent piece at prol-position. The piece engages a lot with Silver’s Forces of Labor, which I keep meaning to finish. (Incidentally, Wildcat assembled a dossier on Silver that’s quite good.)
February 16, 2006
… is the future of operaismo?
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Addendum, on a part of the past (end, in some ways) of operaismo and its touching another tradition:
Here’s a letter from Glaberman on the Italian state railroading of Negri and others -
http://www.marxists.org/archive/glaberman/1980/04/terroritaly.htm
Very interesting. I’d be interested to hear more about the Glaberman-Gambino connection, mentioned by Linebaugh in his remarks on Glaberman at the IWW centenary. Gambino was listed as a speaker at an event about Glaberman after Glaberman’s death:
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg05289.htm
I found this -
http://www.mail-archive.com/news@alexn.itb.it/msg00111.html
- by Gambino and someone else. Il mio italiano non e molto bene, e dificile a leggere. Fuck, thinking of it now, I’d like to read more by Gambino! And Glaberman.
Other stuff:
Gambino on Rawick
Ferrucino Gambino, “In Memory of George P. Rawick: Sizing Up the Magnitude of Dismantling Racism,” 1999: Sozialgeschicte des 20 Jahrhunderts 6 (Winter 1991): 104-10
Don Fitz and David Roediger, eds., Within the Shell of the Old: Essays on Workers’ Self-Organization (1990)
Comment by Nate — February 16, 2006 @ 7:34 pm