Asserting that 'Lenin was closer to Max's Weber's Politics as Vocation' than to the German working-class struggle', Italian philosopher and radical theorist of 1960s 'operaismo', Mario Tronti has engaged in a lifelong project of thinking 'the autonomy of the political'. These essays mark the conjunction of the English-language edition of Tronti's 1966 Workers and Capital with the centenary of Weber's famous 1919 lecture.