2026-02-02.5_operaismo and intersectionality

“From the political point of view, class is composed through struggle and conflict, not on the basis of objective identities. It is not the exploited and the subaltern who compose themselves as a class, but those that struggle against their exploitation and subalternity. As Mario Tronti says: there is no class without class struggle.”

• Gigi Roggero, Italian Operaismo

-> most effective connection / intersection with (identity politics &) intersectional feminism & queer theory: class (and with/in it identity) composition as complex process, initiated, fed & always marked by struggles.

-> “This book will explain why the operaist concept of class composition already anticipates by many decades the best critiques of intersectionality, insofar as gender and race dynamically and continually redetermine that composition.”

-> all things considered, much better reception of / engagement with intersectionality than any other marxist/marxian tendency i’ve come across for now. most importantly: able to be built on.