Hardt & Negri: The New Federalist?

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Feb 9 16:37:57 PST 2001


Andrew wrote:


>Nice theory except the left anti-state movement is many, many times
>stronger in Europe then it is in the US. There are considerably
>more anarchists in a single organisation (CGT union - 45,000 members)
>in Spain there there are anarchists in the entire N.American continent.

It seems to me that our contemporary anti-statist American leftists are not into building an organization. Building a union of 45,000 members would probably violate the American spirit of decentralization. :) The anarchist current that has been influential in Europe is anarcho-syndicalism (to which the CGT, the CNT, etc. belong). Anarcho-syndicalism probably is a little too disciplined & organized to appeal to anti-statist sentiments of American leftists (including American anarchists) today.

Yoshie



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