This insistence is especially manifest in Negri's discussion of Marx's Grundrisse ... 'workerist' theorist Tronti, who in 1967 decided to espouse the 'really-existing ... object, the technicians will serve in reality only as a transmission belt, this time ...
In the course of this book we attempt to show that the political economy of the
USSR is fundamentally capitalist in nature; and in considering it in a critical and theoretical
fashion we find the Marxist critique of capital and the Autonomist Marxist understanding of
class struggle to be tools of very substantial utility. It is also argued that previous
considerations of the USSR, both ‘Marxist’ and sovietological, do not offer a critique of the
production relations of an adequately profound kind; and that even those Marxist writings
which come closest to one are weakened by the insufficiency of their attention to the
necessarily classist and antagonistic basis of those relations. Thus we hope not only to
provide a framework for a more profound theoretical understanding of the nature of Soviet
production relations than has hitherto been available; but also to demonstrate in what way the
production relations in the USSR have been racked throughout the Soviet period by the
irreducible struggle between the proletariat and capital. In both areas the examination of the
contradictions of the Soviet economic system has led to the drawing of important and
original conclusions.
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