Cognitive Capitalism, Crisis, and Class Struggle. The Post-Operaista Paradigm - After having compared the thesis of neoliberal with those of scholars of postoperaism on the new economy, the article highlights the structural affinities between the financial crisis in 2000-2001 (collapse of technology stocks) and the global capitalist crisis began in 2008 (collapse of subprime), and concludes that we face a single event, intended to last. In the second part are highlighted the weaknesses of the different theoretical models mentioned.