Introduction and translation by Andrew Anastasi
Mario Tronti, one of postwar Italy’s greatest theorists of capitalism and the workers’ movement, died on 7 August at the age of 92. Over the course of his long life, Tronti wrote many texts, held key posts in the Italian Communist Party and served as a senator of the Italian Republic. Yet he remains best known for his first book, Workers and Capital, a collection of essays published in 1966, the full English translation of which, by David Broder, appeared in 2019. Trained as a philosopher, Tronti wrote revolutionary theory for those at the barricades, and his early works inspired generations in Italy and around the world.
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