delinking does not equal autarchy

[Patrick Bond]

> Date:          Wed, 7 Feb 2001 12:56:08 -0500
> From:          Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Patrick Bond wrote:
> >As for reforming Empire
> Who's talking about reforming Empire? The idea is to take the social 
> networks that Empire has produced and move beyond them - throw off 
> the constraints of capital and liberate the multitude.

Doug, you've elided the central strategic questions with this reply 
(so too do Hardt/Negri). What concrete instruments and tangible 
political processes do you want to propose, given that your 
preferred scale of politics is global? And what are the power 
relations you're going to have contend with there?

I can remind you of Kagarlitsky's reply to this problem, unless you 
want to leave it erased from the thread, for whatever reason...