Chuck Grimes wrote:
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> Yoshie, have you lost your mind? You're starting to sound like
> Brad. You remember Brad western-civilization-owes-it-all-to-capitalism
> de Long. What's wrong with that picture?
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Tsk tsk Chuck. Remember, in the part you quoted, Yoshie said (emphasis added) "IF you accept Hardt & Negri's analysis." The case being argued might be that (whatever their intentions) Negri & Hardt _add up to_ Brad in practice: that they present an all-destroying empire and offer no way to oppose it. Hence we are thrown back on the (seemingly) polar opposites of hoping for the best (from Empire itself: it is self-dissolving) or in the individualist moral response of throwing ourselves upon the gears of the machine -- which, of course, is what the perpetrators of 911 did. Actually, Doug himself, in his original account of Negri & Hardt, made _the_ damning criticism: their utter vagueness in suggesting the practical import of their maunderings. And Doug's criticism is utterly unanswerable (and no one has attempted to answer it).
Carrol