Anarcho-autonomism?

[renzo_novatore]

Sitting in my little room, I came to the conclusion that - after reading Hakim Bey's TAZ - that I would better define (or describe) my ideas as being an anarcho-autonomist, believing that that was something that I had created. But, much to my dismay, there are already people that call themselves autonomists and not only that, there are anarcho-autonomists. All that I read about autonomism was on the wikipedia page and the ideas intrigued me. Principally the idea that not everyone is a worker and that there is uncompensated labor existing outside of society.

So, basically I was wondering if someone out there could describe autonomist ideas, refer to autonomist texts, and what anarcho-autonomism is since the wikipedia entry didn't go much into it and how that is different than marxist autonomism and how it is different from other anarchist schools of thought.

[Sasha]

if you use the search function you will find quite some threads but they are mostly dealing with the german more marxist/critical theory influenced side.
but as i wrote before:

I really liked "the subversion of politics", http://www.eroseffect.com/books/subversion.html as its more an history book than dry political theory.
Free download on the page, but well worth throwing some buck towards AKpress for.
Just ignore the last chapter (where after concluding that the strengtht of autonomous movements is their lack of an fixed dogmatic theory the author subsequently tries to superimpose a theory on said movements)
you would be most interested in the sections on the dutch and danish movements but the whole book (again excluding the last chapter) is well worth the read.

[blake 3:17]

TAZ is a great book! I wish the autonomists would write one as good.

[renzo_novatore]

TAZ is a great book! I wish the autonomists would write one as good.


Do you think that it fits in with autonomist theory?