Militant Inquiry

[Widerstand]

What exactly are they, how are they conducted, what are their goals?

[Widerstand]

no one knows? :crying:

[Die Neue Zeit]

British Militant back in the 70s and 80s? :confused:

[Widerstand]

No, some thing of the Italian Operaismo and Autonomia movements. I've also heard the phrase connected with the EZLN.

[Q]

You need to be somewhat more specific I guess.

[Savage]

Are you referring to a specific group called 'Militant'?

[Widerstand]

No I am talking about a practice called "militant inquiry" or "militant investigation" or "militant questioning" (or something the like), which was done by Italian Operaists and Autonomists of the 70s/80s (it might have spread to other Operaismo/Autonomia-inspired movements). Afaik it developed out of something called "worker's inquiry" (or something). I've also seen the term connected to the EZLN.

I'm asking what exactly it is and what it's methodology is.

[Savage]

I found a thesis with this in it,



The methodological difference between workers’ inquiry and co-research is purely political. The method is all but unimportant: on the contrary, in recent years, one of the limitations of militant research has been its somewhat hastened approach to the
consolidation of preset hypotheses that failed to take into consideration the process that
produced new forms of knowledge and verified premises. This is not an academic issue
of correct methodology; rather, it is a question of the ability to act politically. The
traditional notion of inquiry within the workers’ movement, even in its most innovative
and explosive forms, employed the paradigms, scientific organisation and instruments
of capitalism and questioned their goals rather than their merits.

It might be of use; http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1contietal.pdf

[Devrim]

No I am talking about a practice called "militant inquiry" or "militant investigation" or "militant questioning" (or something the like), which was done by Italian Operaists and Autonomists of the 70s/80s (it might have spread to other Operaismo/Autonomia-inspired movements). Afaik it developed out of something called "worker's inquiry" (or something). I've also seen the term connected to the EZLN.

I'm asking what exactly it is and what it's methodology is.

I know what you are talking about at least, and even know groups that are into it.

I am a bit hazy on the actual methodology, and it always seemed a bit vague to me.

Your location says that you are in Germany, so presuming you read German, I would imagine that this website (http://www.wildcat-www.de/index.htm) might have something about it. If not, I know that group is into it, so you could write and ask them.

Devrim