Background
Trontl, Mario was born on July 21, 1931 in Rome.
Trontl, Mario was born on July 21, 1931 in Rome.
Tronti was a militant involved with leftist minority groups, an involvement which ended in 1967 with his return to the PCI. His earlier ‘laborist’ positions were the basis for the discussion and organization of political groups to the left of the PCI. His initial Marxism, close to Della Volpe’s, was radicalized in the 1960s and the political analysis of working classes became a theoretical problem, solved by radicalizing the interpretation of Marx’s theory of labour value as found in the Grundrisse. The working class determines the development of capital and the factory is the centre of revolutionary social dynamics. During the 1960s and 1970s he queried his ideas of a ‘monotheistic’ causal account of capital, of the factory-society relationship and the relevance of Marxist instruments to a grasp of the importance of the political to the modern world. This led to the theory of the autonomy of the political, and to the claim that the movement of the working class and of women and youth had to be traced within and against capitalist development and within and against the state.