Factory occupation felt to workers like the working class seizing its own future

Evidence

Occupations proceeded in a relatively peaceful manner. Th e workers’ anthem was sung, and red fl ags were erected to the factory fences and chimneys. Battista Santhià, a worker on strike in Turin, described the experience: “In those days it really seemed like the future of the working class was in our hands. Th e master was overthrown from the factory which was directly managed by the workers.” — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 553

Categorization

• QUESTION: How directly does this worker testimony of felt possibility feed the book’s argument that capital responded with austerity and fascism to exactly this kind of insubordination?
• XREF: connects to: Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory; Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production.; Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 74 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Capital co-opted workers’ own desire for liberation from Fordist routine #complicates (0.85) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 74
• Capitalism co-opted workers’ own desire for emancipation from the Fordist factory #complicates (0.82)
• Postwar workers demanded meaning and agency in production. #corroborates (0.80)
• Factory councils were designed to fuse economics and politics in proletarian self-government #responds-to (0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 534