Author Description

<i>From the Factory to the World</i> offers a landmark historical and theoretical reconstruction of Antonio Negri's political thought, from Italian Operaismo in the 1960s and 1970s to his global influence via <i>Empire</i> (2000), and up to his death in 2023. The book highlights Negri's epistemic continuity, showing how he extended the core tenets of Operaismo - such as the working class's autonomy and Tronti's "Copernican revolution" - beyond the Fordist factory into a "global Marxism" for the present. Employing a methodology at the intersection of the history of political thought and intellectual history, it elucidates Negri's ideas and innovations, engages major critiques, and distinguishes his approach from Western Marxism, post-Marxism, and neo-Marxism, assessing its contributions to critical theory and social movements.