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- During the seventies, Ferrari Bravo worked in the University of Padova’s Institute of Political Science, where Negri had assembled an impressive array of workerist intellectuals. One of them, Alisa del Re, recalls a certain intellectual elitism within the Institute, that drew its sustenance as much from familiarity with the experience of worker militants at Venice’s petrochemical plants as it did from close attention to the Grundrisse and Capital. In her words:
the most evident form of this was the phrase “frankly, comrade, I don’t understand you”, which actually meant “you’re a fuckwit”