This text, an introduction to TC, was written for a group of ’young Lyonnais’ carrying out a ’theoretical reflection on the German and Italian Lefts’ and was published in TC 14.
The fundamental problem to which all theoretical production must return, that must be confronted and to which it must find a resolution, is the following: how can the proletariat - acting strictly as a class of the capitalist mode of production, in its contradiction with capital within this mode of production - [...]
[+]