2026-02-01_intellectual hubris

Looking back we can see there were subjective limits with respect to organization. As Alquati already showed in his 1961 text quoted above, intellectual hubris leads to an ignoring of the process of the formation of a militant and social counter-subjectivity, instead imagining that there is immediacy, necessity, and spontaneity between the identification of supposed tendencies and their realization. In this way organization as a process disappears, leaving only the dead end of conceptual abstraction.

• Gigi Roggero, Italian Operaismo, emphasis mine