>* "Blows against Empire," a review of Hardt and Negri's Empire.
><http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Empire.html>.
>They conclude the book by invoking "love, simplicity, and also innocence"
>and "the irrepressible lightness and joy of being communist." One wants to
>say, "oh how romantic, how archaic, how deluded, how impractical," but
>it's so beautiful that it's best to leave it at that, for now at least.
The ending is in great danger of being seen as just sentimental. Yet in the final analysis the grounds for being optimistic for any of us are if we believe the human tendencies towards cooperation are greater than those towards conflict.
And they are.
Chris Burford
London