''Classe Operaia'' (

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: ''Working Class'') was a Marxist monthly magazine which was published in Italy for three years between 1964 and 1967. Its subtitle was "political monthly of the workers in struggle."

History and profile

''Classe Operaia'' was founded by a group of Marxist intellectuals who left another Marxist magazine entitled ''

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''. The first issue of ''Classe Operaia'' came out in January 1964. Asor Rosa and

Mario Tronti Mario Tronti (born 24 July 1931 in Rome) is an Italian philosopher and politician, considered one of the founders of the theory of operaismo in the 1960s. An active member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the 1950s, he was, with Ra ...

co-edited the magazine from its start in 1964 to 1966. One of the contributors was philosopher

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. Target audience of ''Classe Operaia'' was the workers. The magazine's debut editorial, "Lenin in Inghilterra" (Italian: "Lenin in England"), by Mario Tronti emphasized the need to change the Marxist tradition which included the modification the dominant perspective of the period. Such a change was reported to be related to first the working class and its struggles and to the capital and its development. The last issue of the magazine appeared in March 1967.

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