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Autonomism, or '''Autonomist Marxism''' is a Left-wing political movement and theory. Autonomism (''autonomia'') emerged in Italy in the 1960s from Workerist (''operaismo'') Communism . Later, Post-Marxist and Anarchist tendencies became significant after influence from the Situationists , the failure of the Italian revolutionary era in the 1970s and the emergence of a number of important theorists including Antonio Negri . It influenced the German and Dutch ''Autonomen'', the worldwide Social Center movement, and today is influential in Italy, the United States and some other English-speaking countries. Those who describe themselves as ''autonomists'' now vary from workerist Marxists to Post-structuralists and (some) anarchists. CHARACTER Autonomist theory, in contrast with other forms of , for example Absenteeism , slow working, and socialisation in the workplace. The Industrial Workers Of The World are popularly taken as a prototypical "autonomist" labor union. Like other Marxists, they see Class Struggle as of central importance, but unlike most Marxists, they have a broad definition of the working class that includes the waged ( White Collar and Blue Collar ), and the unwaged (beneficiaries, homemakers and so on). Autonomists are less concerned with party political organisation than other types of Marxist thought; instead it focuses on self-organised working class action and the development of its theoretical tools in accord with actual working class struggles. Early theorists were Mario Tronti , Antonio Negri , Sergio Bologna and others in Italy in the 1970s. It has influenced Marxist academics including Harry Cleaver , John Holloway , Steve Wright, and Nick Dyer-Witheford . INFLUENCE ''Autonomism'' may also refer to the Dutch anarchist ''Autonomen'' movement from the 1960s which concentrated on Squatting , or to the German ''Autonomen'' squats of the 1980s. Due to the inspiration provided by the Autonomist Marxist and ''Autonomen'' movements for some of the revolutionary left, some English-language leftist groups with a fundamentally anarchist bent describe themselves as ''Autonomists''. SEE ALSO
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