Lavoro e rivoluzione. Sapere, linguaggio e produzione nel pensiero radicale italiano

According to the Italian Radical Thought the study of work structure gives the basis for the concept of revolution. In this paper, the aim is to highlight one of the contradiction of the 21th century society: it’s true that one of the requirements of communist society – conceived as the result of the revolution – consists in the suppression of the separation between manual and intellectual work; but, at the same time, it’s also true that the unification of hand and mind qualifies more and more the work of contemporary capitalism. Taking note of this contradiction allows us to clear the characteristics of social production relationships and to provide certain elements about a theory of social transformation.