In these three texts Mario Tronti presents his theory of 20th century politics, which in his opinion is the history of the politics of the working class, the politics of communism as the horizon of the class struggle and the constitution of the subaltern classes as ruling classes and political subject capable, for the first time in history, of producing a rational project of collective liberation capable of wrenching control of social reproduction from the ruling classes. The politics of the working-class subject has been during the 20th century the primary force to define the political project of modernity and the first form of political constitution that has presented a structural challenge on the part of the subaltern classes to the secular project of domination constructed by the classes. and ruling capitalist elites. Communist politics understood as a rational bet to introduce the antagonism of the productive subject as an independent variable of social reproduction and to destroy the project of subordination and global exploitation of planetary wealth.

The essential questions that Tronti raises in this book: how politics can be thought today after the defeat of the communist project in the long 20th century and what are the relationships between social antagonism and the political constitution of the dominated classes in an environment of serious crisis of capitalism , of geopolitical mutation of the global context and of neo-authoritarian reaction of the western elites? they constitute a lucid reflection on the necessary construction of strong political subjects capable of guiding their action in purely post-capitalist and revolutionary terms at this historical moment. How to build a radical policy, endowed with a strong anti-systemic impact, that manages to put an end to capitalist domination when the crisis is multidimensional and ecologically complex and the technical and political composition of the workforce has radically changed, oscillating between the cognitive work of high productive valence and the validity of neofeudal exploitation models of enormous brutality and extension? How to think about this political subject in a situation in which the violence of capital and its elites once again prevails as a daily expedient for the management of social antagonism, the virulence of which is evidenced in the forms of administration of the 2008 crisis, in the management of migratory flows and in the exponential increase in inequality within the countries individually considered? If the politics of the labor force, which has structured the 20th century, constitutes the premise to think of a world in which equality and justice are the fruit of the power of productive subjects and not the miserable result of their structural exploitation by capitalist relations of production, then the unprecedented forms of social cooperation and post-national political organization indicate the horizon of construction of the new political subjects at the present moment.