Hardt & Negri: The New Federalist?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Feb 10 10:45:04 PST 2001


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>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.

It appeals to me, and to Bob Fitch too. Do we count as American leftists?

Doug



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