2026-04-19.2_M Tronti - improvement of exploitation

β€œIn The beginning, the content of the class struggle has two faces - that of the working class & that of the capitalists - which are not yet separated by a radical division. The struggle for the working day is instructive in this respect. Moreover, the platforms of demands which workers have for decades, presented to the capitalists have had - and could only have had - one result: the improvement of exploitation. Better conditions of life for the workers were not separable from greater economic development of capitalism.”

  • Mario Tronti, The Strategy of Refusal, italics mine

the question of if and how our struggles are leading either to an improvement of exploitation or an end of exploitation is extremely important from a radical/revolutionary perspective. the shades of ambiguity between the two answers at any given moment in any given struggle are also important to register, analyze and if necessary either bend in the other direction or intensify in order for the struggle to be successful.

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