Comment by claudiawerner

You're again using a historical example to characterize the extent of the current sway of a particular intellectual heritage, and a tenuous one at that: autonomism does not imply revolutionary spontaneism at all (again, evidence please!), and it is rather closer associated with left-communism, a historical and current communist movement best associated with early Lenin and a return to Marx, rejecting Stalinism and Maoism. Operaismo/workerism and later autonomism rejected Third-Worldism, even in a time when it was popular.

"The plight of Trotskyism had been even more bleak, reduced to eking out a semi-clandestine existence within the PCI. Neither of these fates par-ticularly appealed to the editors of Classe Operaia; nor, for that matter, did they show any great interest in the first murmurings of Italian Maoism. Their reasons for such diffidence, beyond the vagaries of sectarian politiCS, were rational enough, being based on the realisation that a new organisation unable to command the support of a large slice of the working class was doomed to failure. This lesson, moreover, had been reinforced for the Venetians by their unsuccessful attempts to build workplace committees outside the offiCial labour movement, a failure that led them temporarily to advance a more cautious approach to autonomous organisation. Both the Northerners and Romans, then, were initially united in rejecting what they called 'Trotskyist tactics' and 'Chinese dances' (Tronti 1966: 32), even if their motives for doing so were rather different." (from Storming Heaven by Steve Wright[0]).

You're going to need a stronger case than saying that the West German movement was Maoist and therefore Antifa in the US and elsewhere today is Maoist too - especially when you contradict your own claim that by the 1980s they'd moved on to autonomism. Please provide an analysis of the prevalence of Maoism or Maoist ideas as it exists today within the mainstream American radical left.

[0] https://libcom.org/files/Wright%20S%20-%20Storming%20Heaven%...