Letture operaiste di Gramsci. Il caso Negri

This article aims to analyze the relationship between Antonio Negri and the political and philosophical categories of Antonio Gramsci. It is my intention to resume, from the Sixties of the last century to nowadays, the stragegical uses of Gramsci’s thought by Negri. According to me, we can divide four periods in the theoretical framework of Negri. In the first one, Gramsci is an author incompatible with the workerist strategy of class struggle. In the second one, there is a sort of use of Gramsci against Gramsci. Pointendly, Negri tries to subtract the author of the Prison Notebooks from the prerogatives of the Pci. After the arrest of Negri in the 1979, Gramsci’s figure became more ambiguous and we can find his categories under track in the pages of Negri. Then, also due the closness with Michael Hardt, Gramsci starts to become an unavoidable reference point for both the authors. Therefore, my aim with this essay is to show that, far from being just an opponent, in Negri’s perspective Gramsci is a priviliged partner in the analysis of the present and the theoretical construction of the future.