a healthy and lucid disgust

[Max Sawicky]

. . . Marx's view is grounded on a 
healthy and lucid disgust for the parochial and rigid hierarchies 
that preceded capitalist society as well as on a recognition that the 
potential for liberation is increased in the new situation"

    - Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, p. 43

but it is not obvious that empire is more susceptible
to liberation than nation-state.  The contrary seems
more likely to me.

mbs