>"The concept of multitude. From the scientific point of view it is
>still very young as a concept. We are launching it in order to see
>if it works. But when, in defining the new proletariat, we speak of
>multitude, we are speaking of a plurality of subjects, of a movement
>in which cooperating singularities are at work. There is an
>absolutely huge difference with the concept of class. The multitude
>works, is completely exploited, but it puts itself together through
>the Net, through connections, through cooperation and language. The
>multitude has a multipicity which is productive and constituent, all
>elements which can also be referred back to classical Marxist
>categories: to the modification of labour-power within real
>subsumption, in the passage of general intellect into production.
>The concept of multitude is therefore used here as an instrument.
>But what might its political relevance be? On this terrain I think
>that we are living through an enormous primitive accumulation at the
>world level. To give an image of what is happening from the point of
>view of subjectivity, the best that we have is an image taken from
>Lucretian primitive materialism: there is a great movement of
>particles, atoms, singularities, which are putting themselves
>together and building here and there. It is clear that this new
>flesh of the proletariat has to become body, and that it can become
>body only on the basis of a theos ["god"], on the basis of a
>self-organisation which declares that it will have nothing more to
>do with democracy, and also with socialism - in other words with the
>forms of democratic and socialist management of capital.
>
>"The general situation in which we find ourselves is not at all
>pleasant. It seems to me that the war into which we are entering is
>far more similar to the Thirty Years War, with its massacres - a
>kind of state of nature. This engine of constitution which Empire is
>assuming and which it calls war is producing catastrophes."
Rejecting democracy and socialism, where will self-organizing "particles, atoms, singularities" go on the basis of "god" in the world of the Thirty Years War, "an enormous primitive accumulation on the world level," with the American army free to police the entire world? -- Yoshie
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