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first thoughts?

very thought-provoking - some definite over-statements and weird readings of Marx, but I like lots of the readings he takes and definitely productive to read more broadly against communisation / operaismo. I was prompted to read it properly from re-reading bits of endnotes vol 2 where they compare Camatte's reading of the Grundrisse with Negri's, and think way more needs to be said about relating the different tendencies.

Certainly. I find Camatte a weird one (although I have only read his translations in Endnotes 5). Lots of it seems very on-point, but I find it hard to get on board with his theory of the 'human community' in the sense that it seems like a denial of the ability of the working-class to self-emancipate/abolish itself!
From what I know too Negri was a big fan of Invariance back in the day!

yeah his stance is a very strange kind of humanism (although he of course denounces 'humanism' of other marxists) which I think sees things in very grand anthropological terms. As his foundational premise is that the working class is fully integrated into capital, then he basically disavows most historical ideas of emancipation, like working-class self-abolition and equally rejects a politics premised on the refusal of work as he sees it as supporting capital! nonetheless, some very workeristy-ideas in there!

I will have to read it then!