I think that the deeper and longer that Gromshy thinks about this, the more he's aware of the unevennesses among the under-others of Italy. And even now, the world that we live in has the radical juxtaposition that we all daily work with in the US. We have no particular connection to those people who are working those ones. To understand how that could be connected, how that collective subalternative can be turned into a collective worker remains very difficult to see.
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