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VersoBooks.com: Fiat Has Branded Me: A Hot Autumn Timeline for Nanni Balestrini’s We Want Everything

Jim Groom

VersoBooks.com: Fiat Has Branded Me: A Hot Autumn Timeline for Nanni Balestrini’s We Want Everything

Nanni Balestrini’s We Want Everything (Vogliamo tutto), published in 1971, captures an explosive moment of worker militancy in Italy during 1969. It is the story of one man, told by a narrator whose experiences are based on those of the worker and militant Alfonso Natella. It is also, however, the collective story of workers from the Italian south who arrived at the Fiat Mirafiori factory in Turin during the 1960s. These workers were described, in approving terms, by the Italian radical political theorist Mario Tronti as a ‘crude, pagan race’. Balestrini’s narrator says of these new workers: ‘The monsters were coming, the horrible workers’ (WWE 65).