W.'s been reading so much Tronti, he's not sure which are his own thoughts, and which the Italian philosopher's. The development of capitalism is the truth of capitalism, he writes in an email to me. The more that capital develops, the more it reveals the secret of capitalism.
And then, in another email: As soon a capitalism has conquered everything extrnally, the force of domination must become internal – capitalism has to be internalised, capitalism is now a matter of subjectivity. Brilliant!, I write back.
It is only by seeing ourselves as part of capital, immanent to capital, that we can possibly struggle against it, W. writes. Exactly!, I write back.
W.'s on a roll, we agree. But whose roll is it, W.'s or Tronti's?
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