André Gorz is known as one of the main authors in the contemporary debate on the crisis of the labor-based society. In Farewell to the working class, published in 1980, he fiercely criticizes traditional Marxism and its “religion of the proletariat”. However, Gorz’s earlier work, published in previous decades, has not been given proper attention. The aim of this article is to analyze in detail his thought of the 1960’s, showing that in those writings Gorz sustains theses that, in many aspects, are diametrically opposed to the ones upheld from Farewell to the working class onwards.
André Gorz; Marxism; New Left; Labor; Proletariat
