In 1978, Antonio Negri presented a series of seminars on Marx's Grundrisse in Paris. This is a collection of those seminars. Negri is a leading figure of the Italian Autonomia and this book aims towards a reconstruction of Marxist theory.

In 1978, at the invitation of Louis Althusser, Negri presented a series of seminars on Marx's Grundrisse in Paris. This is the book of those seminars. Negri, a leading figure of the Italian Autonomia, was in France as a consequence of charges relating to revolutionary action brought against him by the Italian state...;Marx Beyond Marx aims towards a reconstruction of Marxist theory, a reconstruction that goes beyond Marx by going back to Marx, an angry Marxism summoned by the real possibility of communism...In setting the agenda for such reconstruction, and in clarifying its priorities, Marx Beyond Marx is a pathbreaking and indispensible work.