He died at 90 years old Italian philosopher and activist Toni Negri in Paris, as confirmed by relatives of the writer and political activist. He was considered one of the main leaders of the anti-globalization movement.
The information about his death was reported by his wife, the French philosopher Judith Reveland his daughter Anna, who remembered him with a publication on Instagram.
Who was the Italian philosopher Toni Negri
Born in Padua, Italyhe August 1, 1933Negri was the son of a communist and one descendant of fascists. His father died when he was two years old, while her mother worked as a teacher in Poggio Ruscoa municipality in the north of Italy. From a very early age, he approached Marxist ideology and studied to escape poverty.
Professor of State Theory at the University of Padua, Black was involved in the revolutionary struggle since the sixties of the last century, as a thinker and activist.
He was the author of the Empire trilogy, which was called the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century”, together with the American philosopher Michael Hardt.
He was known for his studies on the figure of Spinozaand during the decades of 1960s and 1970s He collaborated with the labor movements of the Italian radical left, for which he had to go into exile in Paris until 1997.
Negri participated in different initiatives, such as Worker Power or Worker Autonomy, which questioned the role of workers in the large mechanized factory. In 1979 he was arrested and, although the various murder charges of which he was accused were dismissed due to lack of evidence, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison considering him “morally responsible” for the subversive acts against the State of those years, according to the newspaper El País.
His place in politics, exile and prison
In 1983 he was elected deputy for the Marco Pannella’s Radical Partyand was able to leave prison and flee to France, where he was exiled until 1997. There he worked at the University of Vincennes and the International College of Philosophy, together with Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida either Felix Guattari, with which he wrote “The nomadic truths”. He returned to Italywhere he finished his sentence in 2003, after a reduction to 13 years.
Negri is the author of numerous books such as “The Finnish train“, “Subversive Spinoza“, “Europe and the Empire“, “Exile or Empire“. He wrote some of his works while in prison.
Source: Ambito
