Empire: Hardt responds

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 30 16:38:55 PST 2001


John Gulick wrote:


>every little tiny "subversive" gesture
>(shoplifting, sick-ins, jaywalking, grafitti, etc.) is imbued with
>revolutionary consciousness

Potential revolutionary consciousness, don't you think? Isn't the job of the disciplined professional autonomist revolutionary to make these sentiments and practices conscious, link them up with each other, and just give a big collective Fuck You to capital, instead lots of little, essentially harmless ones?

Of course, H&N argue that the dispersed Fuck Yous of the 70s contributed to the productivity slowdown and the decline in the profit rate - which were only reversed with the onset of the Reagan/Volcker/Thatcher discipline.

Doug



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