2023-12-16 18:04:00
The Italian philosopher Antonio “Toni” Negri, recognized for his activism and for being one of the main leaders of the anti-globalization movement, died at the age of 90 in Paris, France. The news was confirmed by his wife and his daughter on social networks.
With an extensive academic career, Negri was Professor of State Theory at the University of Padua but he was also involved in the revolutionary struggle since the sixties of the last century.
The author of books like “The Finnish Train”, “Spinoza subversive”, “Europe and the Empire” y “Exile or Empire”died in Paris, where he was exiled for several years since he was linked to the Red Brigades, an Italian far-left organization that ended the life of Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. Negri was preventively arrested accused of being part of the group, but four and a half years later it was proven that there were no grounds to accuse him.
Subsequently, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison when he was considered “morally responsible” for “subversive acts” against the Italian State of those years.
The era of fragmentation
The news of his death was learned this Friday through a publication by his wife, the French philosopher Judith Revel, and his daughter Anna, who remembered him in Instagram.
The academic and militant career of Toni Negri
Born in Padua, in the Veneto region on August 1, 1933, he was the son of a communist and a descendant of fascists. His father died when he was two years old, while his mother worked as a teacher in a municipality in northern Italy.
The Italian was the author of the Empire trilogy together with the American philosopher Michael Hardt, a work that was characterized as the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century.”
He was also recognized for his studies on the figure of Baruch Spinoza, and during the 1960s and 1970s, he collaborated with labor movements of the Italian radical left. Then, the murder of Moro occurred, which earned him exile.
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On the other hand, he had extensive participation in organizations such as Poder Obrero and Autonomía Obrera, which criticized the role of workers in the large mechanized factory.
Years later, in 1983, he was elected deputy for Marco Pannella’s Radical Party, which led to his release. Thereafter, he moved to France where he was exiled until 1997, working at the University of Vincennes and the International College of Philosophy.
There he shared space with other renowned intellectuals such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Felix Guattari. With Guattari he co-wrote “The Nomadic Truths.” He then returned to Italy, where he finished serving his sentence in 2003, after a reduction to 13 years. This Friday his death was confirmed in Paris, the city that knew how to welcome him during his ostracism.
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