The pro­le­tariat is the real response to this eco­nomic pseudo-materialism. Its response is elab­o­rated through its prac­ti­cal exis­tence. Any­one who looks at its his­tory can see that the pro­le­tariat has not merely reacted to def­i­nite, exter­nal eco­nomic fac­tors (degree of exploita­tion, stan­dard of liv­ing, mode of con­cen­tra­tion), but that it has really acted.

This arti­cle ana­lyzes schemat­i­cally sev­eral aspects of the so-called “wild­cat” mode of strug­gle recently adopted by the FIAT work­ers; it does not the­o­rize it as the “only” one pos­si­ble. It’s a “par­tic­u­lar” analy­sis, not because the events described are excep­tional or exclu­sive to that “core mass” of work­ers that are FIAT, but because the gen­eral dimen­sion, within which only the move­ment is “polit­i­cal,” is impli­cated here as the deter­mi­nant pre­sup­po­si­tion but isn’t directly analyzed.