2026-04-19.1_M Tronti - who gives labor and capital

“[…] the idea that it is”working people” who are The true “givers of labour”, and that it is the concern of workpeople to defend the dignity of this thing which they provide, against all those who would seek to debase it. Untrue…The truth of the matter is that the person who provides labour is the capitalist. The worker is the provider of capital. In reality, he is the possessor of that unique, particular commodity which is the condition of all the other conditions of production.”

• Mario Tronti, The Strategy of Refusal, italics mine

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