Global Capital, Empire and Argentina

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>>  Wow, and I thought that among Negri's great faults
>>  was that he's too
>>  optimistic, too eager to see any unrest as
>>  revolutionary.
>
>Yes, that Negri is too optimistic seems a more likely
>criticism, seeing as he believes that the passage to
>Empire creates a situation that optimizes the chance
>of moving beyond capitalism to COMMUNISM.
>
>Carrol is the first person whom I have met that
>actually criticizes Negri for being a pessimist.
>
>-Thomas

Rejection of national liberation (including regionalist varieties of 
it as advanced by Samir Amin, Pat Bond, et al) + Skepticism of Hardt 
& Negri's optimism = TINA (there is no alternative to capitalism and 
imperialism) = pessimism.
-- 
Yoshie

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