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41 From the beginning, the new Giolitti government chose a different approach to workers’ challenge. Giovanni Giolitti had appointed the socialist philosopher Antonio Labriola as minister of labor, who had tried from the outset to bring the two opponents to an agreement. On August 30, 1920, the lockout began in Milan at the Romeo factory, and then later the occupations rapidly spread. By the beginning of September they took over almost the whole peninsula. The industrialists pressed for military intervention, but Giolitti simply decided to wait it out.
40 ● Biopolitics and Social Change in Italy It is with the following note, “Taylorism and the Mechanization of the Worker,” that the figurality of Fordism is finally chiseled out. The mechanization of the worker is illustrated through a very special kind of laborer, the medieval copyist and its evolution, the modern typographer. The figural relation between the two is clear. Both workers increase their efficiency as they detach themselves from the content of their reproduction, in short as they eliminate any subjective input in their copying.
59 This is why the accusation of “voluntarism” is for Gramsci an arbitrary, instrumental attack. ”60 Will is neither a purely reflective state of mind, nor a blind act of the subject, but rather a coefficient of friction with the organized system in which every individual lives. So that it is only in conjunction with the marking out of the mechanics of oppression that a coercive apparatus is pierced through. ”62 The uninterrupted breeding of forms of collective life constitutes the working principle of the philosophy of praxis.
