By Antonio Negri
A key determine within the Italian “Autonomia” stream reads Marx’s Gründrisse, constructing the serious and debatable theoretical equipment that informs the “zero-work” process and different parts so the most important to this new and “heretical” tendency in Marxist idea. A problem to either capitalist and socialist apologists for waged slavery.
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One can say that, in distinction from what happens in point B, here the attention latches onto the extensive contradictions rather than onto the intensive contradiction. The world market is the specific terrain on which crisis determines "the general intimation which points beyond the presupposition, and the urge which drives towards the adoption of a new historic form" (Grundrisse, p. 228; 139). The world market multiplies the contradictions of money in circulation, putting it all in movement.
The other side is that which accentuates not so much the consideration of the category but its tendential formation on the basis of the antagonism of money. But of that we have already spoken. We have thus come to the end of the reading of this chapter on money. It seems to me that the questions which were initially posed have found a first contribution to discussion and raised further reasons for being, at least approximately, developed. It seems to me, in particular, possible to confirm the judgment anticipated in regard to the utiliry of the attack, of the beginning of this chapter on money.
Money can describe, and here it describes with great potency, the dynamism ofthe tendency and that of the antagonism. On the first plane, that of the tendency, it is indeed true what Marx underlines: Money "is itself the community [GemeinwerenJ and can tolerate none other standing above it. But this presupposes the full development of exchange values, hence a corresponding organization of society" (Grundrisse, p. 223; 134). And we recall as well that "when wage labor is the foundation, money does not have a dissolving effect, but acts productively" (Grundrisse, p.