Raniero Panzieri

Raniero Panzieri ( born February 14, 1921 in Rome, † October 9, 1964 in Turin ) was an Italian Marxist. He is considered the founder of Operaism.

Panzieri was from 1953 to 1957 leading member of PSI and their spokesperson for cultural concerns. 1953 appeared the Italian translation of the second volume of Capital Marx, whom he had made ​​his wife and and whom he regarded as the essential basis of Marxist theory. He was, from 1956, editor, then de facto head of Mondo operaio, the theoretical journal of the PSI, 1957-58, he propagated the workers there investigations. However, the Socialist Party not radicalized, but was always willing to compromise. Panzieri put the leadership of the magazine down in December 1958.

Quaderni rossi

Panzieri organized in late 1959 a group of young socialists in Turin, from the Quaderni rossi ( red books ) will emerge. But it is from the beginning to strong tensions between a "scientific" wing to Vittorio Rieser (Giovanni Mottura, Dino De Palma) and militant socialist veterans organizations to Emilio Soave. The first issue of Red Notebooks is determined by the right wing, but after winning the Soave - wing in the Turin group the upper hand and also in the editorial board of QR occurs in February 1961 to Roman intellectuals to Mario Tronti, Alberto Asor Rosa, Gaspare De Caro. Tensions remain and in the spring of 1963, comes to the final fracture of the Soave wing with Panzieri. The Rieser wing takes over the Quaderni rossi, the Soave - people Romano Alquati and the group led by Mario Tronti found the Classe Operia.

The PSI and the PCI policy was always Panzieri not radical enough, he envisioned a militant labor movement that works toward the revolution. Panzieri died unexpectedly at the age of 43 years.