The autonomous Marxist tradition is thus useful in this instance insofar as it
simultaneously centers its analytical apparatus on work and disavows its traditional ethics. Central to that tradition is not only the analytical primacy accorded to the imposition of work as fundamental to the capitalist mode of production, but also the political priority of the refusal of work-a priority recorded in the call not for a liberation of work but a liberation from work (see Virno and Hardt 1996, 263).
